Lexicographical Neighbors of Gippies
Literary usage of Gippies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Khartoum Campaign, 1898, Or, The Re-conquest of the Soudan by Bennet Burleigh (1899)
"The " gippies " looked without flinching straight into the eyes of the dervishes,
and fired volleys that would have done credit to a British regiment. ..."
2. Recollections of Forty Years' Service by Alexander Bruce Tulloch (1903)
"After a short interval this was returned by gippies, and a general signal ...
The gippies at once gave us a well-aimed return ; they had our range exactly. ..."
3. That Reminds Me by Edward Richard Russell (1899)
"He managed to shout out to the " gippies" that the enemy was retreating, and so
the day was won. In 1884 a present leader of the Liberal party, ..."
4. Donovan Pasha and Some People of Egypt by Gilbert Parker (1903)
"A dozen gippies ran out, dragged him in, and closed the gate. The last thing
Wyndham did before he died in the grey of dawn—and this is told of him by the ..."
5. Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt by Gilbert Parker (1902)
"A dozen gippies ran out, dragged him in, and closed the gate. The last thing
Wyndham did before he died in the gray of dawn—and this is told of him by the ..."
6. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"gippies (journalistic), explained by quotation. Colonel Kitchener will probably
stick to his original intention of having only rip- pies (as they call the ..."
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