Street urchin to start to go out with bird

• Street urchin
• Bit of riffraff
• Person behaving as one brought up in squalor
• (Neglected) child of the streets
• Slum child
• Street child

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ No wonder you turned into such a weasel-faced guttersnipe . ▪ There's no trusting a guttersnipe .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas [syn: street urchin ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also gutter-snipe , 1857, from gutter (n.) + snipe (n.); originally Wall Street slang for "streetcorner broker," attested later (1869) as "street urchin," also "one who gathers rags and paper from gutters." As a name for the common snipe, it dates from ...