g-g-guttersnipe

Updated: May 10, 2025

This he was wont to do, and, after emitting them through his silky beard, he would draw in his breath through parted teeth, as a child does when it has the taste of peppermint in its mouth. "I-I-I t-tell you, a boy in a kindergarten could get it right a g-g-guttersnipe could. This was so much like what they yell from a fire-engine that, though I struggled hard, I could not contain a giggle.

Ernest Raymond - Tell England: A Study in a Generation