gipsy
noun
gipsy
American
[jip-see]
/ ˈdʒɪp si /
Or
Gipsy
noun
plural
gipsies
Gipsy
British
/ ˈdʒɪpsɪ /
noun
Sensitive Note
See gypsy.
Other Word Forms
- Gipsy-like adjective
- Gipsydom noun
- Gipsyhood noun
- Gipsyish adjective
- gipseian adjective
- gipsydom noun
- gipsyesque adjective
- gipsyhood noun
- gipsyish adjective
- gipsyism noun
- gipsylike adjective
Vocabulary lists containing gipsy
Example Sentences
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She had on a red cloak and a black bonnet: or rather, a broad-brimmed gipsy hat, tied down with a striped handkerchief under her chin.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
I said this rather to myself than to the gipsy, whose strange talk, voice, manner, had by this time wrapped me in a kind of dream.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
"You seem to know the whole facts as minutely as if you had followed him," said De Vaux, when the gipsy paused for a moment.
From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
It was poor Mrs. Dickinson, the old housekeeper, who used to tell us stories about that gipsy when we were children; and his name was Pharold, I think.
From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
By keeping to this beaten track of enjoyment, he could, at one and the same time, be entertaining June and keeping an eye open for that gipsy girl who haunted his imagination.
From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver
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