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noun

Gipsy n., adj. See Gypsy.

Gypsy n. (pl. gypsies) (Also spelled gipsy and gypsey)

One of a vagabond race, whose tribes, coming originally from India, entered Europe in the 14th or 15th century, and are now scattered over Turkey, Russia, Hungary, Spain, England, etc., living by theft, fortune telling, horsejockeying, tinkering, etc. Cf. Bohemian, Romany. "Like a right gypsy, hath, at fast and loose, Beguiled me to the very heart of loss."

The language used by the gypsies.

A dark-complexioned person.

A cunning or crafty person. (Colloq.)

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Etymology of 'Gipsy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gipsy" Quotes from Famous Books

... between Knowle and Tamworth, instead of signs of industry and improvement were narrow winding lanes leading to nothing, traversed by lean pigs and rough cattle, broad copse-like hedges, small and irregular fields of couch, amidst which straggled the stalks of some smothered cereal; these with gipsy encampments and the occasional sound of the poacher's gun from woods and thickets around were ...

— A Short History of English Agriculture • W. H. R. Curtler

... now you've heard Sir Tiglath's opinion of the practice of trying to turn the stars into money-makers, and the planets into old gipsy women who tell fortunes to silly servant girls, I'm sure you'll never study them again. ...

— The Prophet of Berkeley Square • Robert Hichens

... mad haste. The wide road split it in the middle and seemed a stream of color and life. Joan rode between two lines of horses, burros, oxen, mules, packs and loads and canvas-domed wagons and gaudy vehicles resembling gipsy caravans. The street was as busy as a beehive and as noisy as a bedlam. The sidewalks were rough-hewn planks and they rattled under the tread of booted men. There were tents on the ground and tents on floors and tents on log walls. And ...

— The Border Legion • Zane Grey

... had been regarding him in silence, but with considerable curiosity, and I had about made up my mind that he was a gipsy, on his way to join his tribe, when he ...

— Golden Days for Boys and Girls - Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887 • Various

... Latin on the one side of the table, and the stocking on the other, as if ripe and purified old age and hopeful unstained youth had been the only extremes of humanity known to the world. But the bitter wind was howling by fits in the chimney, and the offspring of a nobleman and a gipsy lay asleep in the garret, covered with the cloak of an ...

— Robert Falconer • George MacDonald

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