GIPSY
\d͡ʒˈɪpsi], \dʒˈɪpsi], \dʒ_ˈɪ_p_s_i]\
Definitions of GIPSY
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Ethnic group coming originally from India and entering Europe in the 14th or 15th century. Many still maintain somewhat their itinerant life and tribal organization.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A member of a wandering race, now found in every part of the world; also, the language of that race.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A wandering race of people found in almost every European country, supposed to have come from India, through Egypt.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. One of a nomadic tribe of Indian origin, coming by way of Egypt into Europe in the fourteenth century; called Bohemians because entering Western Europe from Bohemia; Zingari, in Italy, and Gitanos in Spain; in this country they live by tinkering, fortune-telling, and stealing;—a reproachful name for a person of dark complexion;—playful name for a woman, suggesting artifice or wile.
