Gipsy

Word GIPSY
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Definitions and meanings of "Gipsy"

What do we mean by gipsy?

(sometimes offensive) A member of the Romani people, or one of the sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichal, etc).

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The word "gipsy" in example sentences

The word gipsy was always sufficient to excite my curiosity, and ❋ Unknown (1904)

The song was, to the delight of the audience, the signature tune from his award-winning movie Underground - an almost insanely quick piece, in which a honking tuba leads the seven-piece band in a raucous musical rollercoaster which epitomises what has been described as their "gipsy techno-rock". ❋ Mark Brown (2012)

The gipsy is a tough, active fellow, but not very skilful with his weapon, so that Joe's weight and strength tell in a minute; he is too heavy metal for him. ❋ Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 (1971)

At first sight, you might have called her gipsy, Indian, ❋ Inez Haynes Gillmore (1921)

This puzzled him sorely, but suddenly recollecting that he had baptized another gipsy child "Britannia," without any hesitation he at once named the infant ❋ Unknown (1892)

The gipsy was a soldier, and on his being admitted, the Archduke asked him what he had to say. ❋ Various (1873)

Leghorn hat over her ears, in what was called gipsy fashion. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)

"The word refers to the fact that this series offers even greater access and insight to the communities featured and the terms 'gipsy' or 'gypsier' are not being used in a negative context," a spokesman said. ❋ Katherine Rushton (2012)

In Emily Brontë's novel, the dark-haired Heathcliff is regularly described as a gipsy by other characters. ❋ Cristina (2010)

Thomas de Quincey saw something of the "gipsy" in her, and called her the "very wildest in the sense of the most natural person I have ever known." ❋ Rus Bowden (2009)

As the travellers had observed that day many indications of their drawing nearer and nearer to the race town, such as gipsy camps, carts laden with gambling booths and their appurtenances, itinerant showmen of various kinds, and beggars and trampers of every degree, all wending their way in the same direction, Mr ❋ Unknown (2007)

But much of the frisson of Wuthering Heights, for example, comes from Heathcliff's "gipsy" blood mingling with Catherine's "fair" self. ❋ Princeofcairo (2007)

A passing "gipsy" falls in love with her, despite the dire warnings of the fortune-teller who's been like a mother to him. ❋ Unknown (2006)

A farmer's wife, when out for a holiday, wears a large kind of gipsy hat, like a small umbrella, lined with damask; a close jacket with long flaps; and full short thick coloured petticoats. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

"What did you think she was, gipsy girl?" he asked, for "gipsy" was his pet name for the little dark beauty. ❋ Henry St. John Cooper (N/A)

She sat handsome and upheld and not altogether penetrable, a kind of gipsy to their understanding, though indeed the Romany strain in her was beyond any divining of theirs. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)

Elizabethan have called her "gipsy," Miss Dobson now, in the midst of the Edwardian Era, was the toast of two hemispheres. ❋ Max Beerbohm (1914)

Yet, though a Greek would have railed at her asymmetry, and an Elizabethan have called her "gipsy," Miss Dobson now, in the midst of the Edvardian Era, was the toast of two hemispheres. ❋ Unknown (1911)

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