Gypsy
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8.4
- noun
- /ˈdʒɪpsi/
- Slur
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gitano (ofensivo)
- He discovered that his ancestors were part of a gypsy community that traveled through the countryside.
I've got nothing against jokes about gypsies.
- I've got nothing against jokes about gypsies.
- You get him to a room to sit down with me to talk about boxing because he's the king of the gypsies and I'm king.
- My dad's side stems from like Irish and Scottish and my mum's side from like Romany Gipsies.
- So you see it with the Arabs in France or in Russia, with Central Asians and gipsies.
- What sort of age you start getting, you know what the schools get bullied this college gypsies and that.
Examples
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To all those here tonight who contributed to that relief fund, I would like to pass on the thanks of both myself and my people and to play especially for you a fantasy on the tunes I heard as a child, played by my gypsy friends on the wild plains of Hungary.
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We hear a roll of thunder and distant gypsy music drifting up from the streets below.
Fiction book (1998) -
Look, coming from a gypsy background, we think we're smart.
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I lost my heart to a lady gypsy so long ago, I.
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I guess my mom and the gypsy were both right.
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A person could only accept gypsy company for so long.
Fiction book (1998) -
So he tracks down this old gypsy woman.
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Next time he meets a gypsy woman on the road, he will know better.
Fiction book (1998) -
Montalvo's mother had abandoned her gypsy tribe to marry Juan's father.
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On the road, Eustace met a gypsy woman, big-boned and unruly.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
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7.3
A person from a group that came from northern India and now lives mainly in Europe with their own culture
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8.5
A person from a group with a shared language and culture who traditionally moves from place to place
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7.0
A person from a group who traditionally travels and speaks the Romany language
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9.9
A person of Romani origin who lives in Spain
A person from a traditional travelling group from northern India who now live in many countries and speak their language
A woman from the Romani people in Spain often shown as a dancer or fortune-teller
Compounds
- Offensive
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8.6
A taxi that is not official and picks up passengers from the street without a license
- NSFW
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7.4
A large moth from Europe whose caterpillar eats many tree leaves and can leave trees bare
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gypsy started as a mistake: when Romani people arrived in Europe, people thought they were Egyptian, so the name meant 'from Egypt'. In fact Romani people mostly came from India, and today many Romani people find the word Gypsy offensive because it is an outsider's name rather than the group's own name.