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gipsy

Or Ҿ·

[jip-see]

noun

plural

gipsies 
  1. Chiefly British, Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive.gypsy.



Gipsy

/ ˈɪɪ /

noun

  1. (sometimes not capital) a variant spelling of Gypsy

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Sensitive Note

See gypsy.
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Other Word Forms

  • gipsydom noun
  • gipsyesque adjective
  • gipsyish adjective
  • gipsylike adjective
  • gipseian adjective
  • gipsyhood noun
  • gipsyism noun
  • ˈҾdz noun
  • ˈҾ-ˌ adjective
  • ˈҾ⾱ adjective
  • ˈҾˌǴǻ noun
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Example Sentences

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His ancestry is ambiguous, and he is described in the book as "a dark-skinned gipsy" and "a little Lascar, or an American or Spanish castaway".

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The last night’s ball seemed lost in the gipsies.

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These Szgany are gipsies; I have notes of them in my book.

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I said this rather to myself than to the gipsy, whose strange talk, voice, manner, had by this time wrapped me in a kind of dream.

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Guenever, on the other hand, dressed like a gipsy, entertained like a lodging-house keeper, and kept her lover a secret On top of this, she was a nuisance.

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