gipsy
Americannoun
PLURAL
gipsiesnoun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Sensitive 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
Example Sentences
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His ancestry is ambiguous, and he is described in the book as "a dark-skinned gipsy" and "a little Lascar, or an American or Spanish castaway".
From BBC
Gustav Mahler was right in affirming that too much gipsy has blurred the outlines of real Magyar music.
From Project Gutenberg
The Se�orita was too kind, and as if to disclaim the compliment he went off into a mad gipsy tune.
From Project Gutenberg
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 Project Gutenberg
He is a thorough gipsy in look, and there is a vigour about his sharp-set features and a flash in his coal-black eyes that show him to be a person of considerable independence of thought.
From Project Gutenberg
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