Definitions for Gipsy

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Gipsy Gip·sy

Spelling: [jip-see]

IPA: /ˈdʒɪp si/

Gipsy is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in Gipsy (gipsy).

Definitions for Gipsy

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 Gipsy

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

Examples for Gipsy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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