gipsy
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- noun
- /ˈdʒɪpsi/
- Slur
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gitano (ofensivo)
- Local names for the Milky Way include "Straw Road," "Straw-dropping Road," "Gipsy's Straw," "Gipsies' Way."
- gipsy literature
- Gipsy Kings
Examples
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Now trying to keep her career and her family afioat in a rickety old tub we called "Gipsy House".
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The Gipsy Kings are a group of guys from France who sing in Spanish.
Blog text (22) -
We have been huge fans of The Gipsy Kings forever, and Bamboleo is one of our favorite songs.
Blog text (22) -
Nor does "Pevsner" have much to say about the fenced-off rows of demolished houses or the oxblood boarding wrapped around the few remaining "homes for heroes" promised by Lloyd George after the Great War, which once lined the road uninterruptedly from Shepherd's Bush to Gipsy Corner.
Academic text (2001) -
Many travelers admire the lifestyle of a gipsy, who roams from place to place without a permanent home.
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The festival attracted a crowd dressed like gipsies, celebrating their free and nomadic spirit.
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During their journey, the gipsy family set up camp near the river, enjoying the beauty of nature.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gipsy comes from a mistake: people long ago thought these travellers came from Egypt, so they called them 'Egyptians'. That's why gipsy came to mean someone who travels a lot or lives a free, nomadic life, but today the word is dated and can be offensive when used for the Romani people.