Not sure I can be definitive about it, but I think I have heard both gutter slut and street Arab.

As for the goitre and gout coming via French (and as a Brit I stick to goitre!), this could be related to when the words came into English. We did have a Norman invasion and a lot of Latinate words came via French rather than directly because of that. Unfortunately my dictionary (Shorter OED) has no citations earlier than 1600's, so I can't back that suggestion up.