Definitions for Gipsies

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Gipsies Gip·sy

Spelling: [jip-see]

IPA: /ˈdʒɪp si/

Gipsies is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in Gipsies (egiipss).

Definitions for Gipsies

noun

1. Gypsy.
2. a member of a nomadic, Caucasoid people of generally swarthy complexion, who migrated originally from India, settling in various parts of Asia, Europe, and, most recently, North America.
3. Romany; the language of the Gypsies.
4. (lowercase) a person held to resemble a gypsy, especially in physical characteristics or in a traditionally ascribed freedom or inclination to move from place to place.
5. (lowercase) Informal. gypsy cab.
6. (lowercase) Informal. an independent, usually nonunion trucker, hauler, operator, etc.
7. (lowercase) Slang. a chorus dancer, especially in the Broadway theater.
8. (lowercase) gyp1 (def 4).

adjective

1. of or relating to the Gypsies.
2. (lowercase) Informal. working independently or without a license:

Origin of Gipsies

1505-15; back formation of gipcyan, aphetic variant of Egyptian, from a belief that Gypsies came originally from Egypt

Examples for Gipsies

But it was not really a Gipsy, but Oh, who had taken the shape of a Gipsy.

She patted the greyhounds, and said Gipsy, which was mine, was the prettiest.

It was like a Gipsy's shed, where everything had to be done in common.

Some say his father was an Englishman, some say a Jew, and some say his mother was a Gipsy.

Well, do you know I always thought I should love a Gipsy life.

Again I saw the dark, absorbed face of the Gipsy as he studied my future.

They were not sure whether she were most Saracen, Gipsy, or Jew.

Was it some international password or a Gipsy note of universal import?

Who would not like to live like a Gipsy in a wood, if all the year round was like that month of May?

Her hair was a black as a Gipsy's, and her face as brown as a berry.