I actually found it quite pleasurable, and it prepared me for this strange, Gypsy lifestyle of an actor.
The family held together in the Gypsy jet stream that is military life.
The son of a schoolteacher and a bookkeeper, Hoskins had Gypsy blood in him from his Romani grandmother.
With three others, they now constitute the San Miguel Five and play a combination of Afro-Latin, classical, and Gypsy jazz.
They arrived in Hollywood when she was 15, and she found that being Gypsy made her cool.
Gypsy would have nothing to do with her, and sniffed the air with offended dignity.
Gypsy showed signs of melting, whinnying softly and forgivingly.
"Sit where you are, girl," commanded the Gypsy in sepulchral tones.
Pansy and Pickwick, and the birds and Gypsy, and Methusaleh are all good friends.
I class it with the Gypsy, because all who speak it are also acquainted with Romany.
also gipsy, c.1600, alteration of gypcian, a worn-down Middle English dialectal form of egypcien "Egyptian," from the supposed origin of these people. As an adjective, from 1620s.
Cognate with Spanish Gitano and close in sense to Turkish and Arabic Kipti "gypsy," literally "Coptic;" but in Middle French they were Bohémien (see bohemian), and in Spanish also Flamenco "from Flanders." "The gipsies seem doomed to be associated with countries with which they have nothing to do" [Weekley]. Zingari, the Italian and German name, is of unknown origin. Romany is from the people's own language, a plural adjective form of rom "man." Gipsy is the prefered spelling in England.
noun
verb
To make a risky bet or call: You will find players consistently gypsying, flat-calling with kings up or less (1940s+ Gambling); (1950s+)
