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Definition of Gipsy

1. Noun. A laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment. "Itinerant traders"

2. Noun. A member of a people with dark skin and hair who speak Romany and who traditionally live by seasonal work and fortunetelling; they are believed to have originated in northern India but now are living on all continents (but mostly in Europe, North Africa, and North America).

Definition of Gipsy

1. n. & a. See Gypsy.

Definition of Gipsy

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of gypsy) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gipsy

1. to gypsy [v -SIED, -SYING, -SIES] - See also: gypsy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gipsy

gipouns gipped gipper gippers gippies gipping gippo gippoes gippos gippy

gips gipsen gipsens gipsied gipsies gipsy (current term) gipsy moth gipsying gipsyish gipsyism

gipsyisms gipsylike gipsywort giraffe giraffe weevil giraffe weevils giraffelike giraffes giraffid giraffids

Literary usage of Gipsy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"gipsy life and legends form a kind of background to the writer's reflections on the men and morals of his time. The author, born in East Dereham, Norfolk, ..."

2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"To cause to resemble a gipsy, as by darkening the skin. ... The gipsy mode of life or conduct; the act of consorting with or living like Gipsies. [Verbal n. ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The real key to their origin is, however, the gipsy language. The scientific study of that language began in the middle of the I9th century with the work of ..."

4. The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal by John Camden Hotten (1874)
"gipsy common use amongst the male English. Bamboozle, to delude, cheat, or make a fool ... Gipsies, so appointed by gipsy È «In debted ther. all Ei jns m: ..."

5. An Introduction to Poetry by Jay Broadus Hubbell, John Owen Beaty (1922)
"Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Another superb song, of a different kind, is Kipling's "The gipsy Trail," which has been widely sung to an air by Tod B. ..."

6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"He is of gipsy parentage, and was converted at the age of sixteen. In 1877 he became an evangelist under the auspices of the Christian Mission of London, ..."

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