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gipsy

American  
[jip-see] / ˈdʒɪp si /
Or Gipsy

noun

gipsies plural
  1. Chiefly British, Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive. gypsy.


Gipsy British  
/ ˈdʒɪpsɪ /

noun

  1. (sometimes not capital) a variant spelling of Gypsy

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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See gypsy.

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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

"It is impossible that he can do so," answered Manners, whose confidence in British justice was much stronger than that of the gipsy.

From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

"I know it is," answered the gipsy; "and it is truth, which twenty years cannot change as they have done you and me, hard man!"

From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

"If he be there, he may do well," answered the gipsy; "but probably they will remove him to the county-jail, and there he will have sad and bitter hours enough."

From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

Gipsy James, a multi-brand women’s shop carries everything from Van Palma, the made-in-France hat label, to the popular Parisian line Vanessa Bruno.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 31, 2026

Police want to hear from anyone who witnessed the crash, which happened between the junction of Gipsy Lane and the Griff Roundabout.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2024

The Phryges mascots are manufactured by French companies Gipsy Toys and Doudou et Compagnie.

From Seattle Times Nov. 17, 2022

This weekend, he will open for the Gipsy Kings at the Hollywood Bowl.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2022

Father Miguel and Gipsy Queen appear at the open door cautiously.

From Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume III by M. Y. Halidom (pseud. Dryasdust)

"And I, and I, and I!" cried all the gipsies.

From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

Such open grassy spots may still be seen in England's narrow by-ways, and there gipsies make their camps.

From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Banks, Mrs. G. Linnaeus

I entered the tap-room where a good many men were drinking, while two sleepy gipsies, one with a lute and one with a zither, were playing monotonously in a corner.

From Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian by Various

"Why, Harvey," said the peer, with a complacent smile, "you do not seem fond of these gipsies, I think."

From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

In this expectation, however, De Vaux was mistaken; for the gipsies and their accompaniments, men, women, and children, pots, kettles, and tents, had all disappeared.

From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

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