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Definition: Gipsy |
GipsyNoun1. A member of a nomadic people originating in northern India and now living on all continents. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Gipsy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A small, spool-shaped auxiliary drum with filletted flanges at each end fitted outside the main framing of a winch for general utility work in fishing gear handling on deck, mooring etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Gipsy (g soft). Said to be a corruption of Egyptian, and so called because in 1418 a band of them appeared in Europe, commanded by a leader named Duke Michael of "Little Egypt." Other appellations are: (2) Bohemians. So called by the French, because the first that ever arrived in their country came from Bohemia in 1427, and presented themselves before the gates of Paris. They were not allowed to enter the city, but were lodged at La Chapelle, St. Denis. The French nickname for gipsies is cagoux (unsociables). (3) Ciganos So called by the Portuguese, a corruption of Zinga'nè. (4) Gitanos. So called by the Spaniards, a corruption of Zinga'nè. (5) Heidens (heathens). So called by the Dutch, because they are heathens. (6) Pharaoh-nepek (Pharaoh's people). So called in Hungary, from the notion that they came from Egypt. (7) Sinte. So called by themselves, because they assert that they came from Sind, i.e. Ind (Hindustan). (8) Tatar. So called by the Danes and Swedes, from the notion that they came from Tartary. (9) Tchingani or Tshingani. So called by the Turks, from a tribe still existing at the mouth of the Indus (Tshin-calo, black Indian). (10) Walachians. So called by the Italians, from the notion that they came from Walachia. (11) Zigeuner (wanderers). So called by the Germans. (12) Zincali or Zingani. Said to be so called by the Turks, because in 1517 they were led by Zinganeus to revolt from Sultan Selim; but more likely a mere variety of Tchingani (q.v..) Their language, called "Romany," contains about 5,000 words, the chief of which are corrupt Sanskrit. There is a legend that these people are waifs and strays on the earth, because they refused to shelter the Virgin and her child in their flight to Egypt. (Aventinus, Annales Boiorum, chap. viii.) Gipsy (The). Anthony de Solario, the painter and illuminator, Il Zingaro (1382-1455). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
GIPSY | English | Generalized information processing system | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: GipsySynonyms: Bohemian (n), Gypsy (n), Romany (n), Rommany (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Gipsy |
| Specialty definitions using "Gipsy": Azucena ♦ Boheme, Bohemian Life ♦ Cagots, Caqueux, Colliberts, Crossing the Hand ♦ Frollo ♦ Gitanos ♦ Leonora ♦ Meg Merrilies, Mumpers. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Gipsy Pentecost (The Feast of St. Sara) (1970) The Heart of a Gipsy (1919) A Gipsy Girl's Honour (1912) From Gipsy Hands (1910) Gipsy Angel (1994) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "Gipsy beggar woman" by Lucian Binder Commentary: "Portrait of a beggar woman taken october 1993 in romania (with nikon 601)." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | There was in her veins the blood of the gipsy and of the adventuress who goes barefoot |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Temple turned on him his dark gipsy eyes |
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| "Gipsy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 67.52% of the time. "Gipsy" is used about 157 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 67.52% | 106 | 31,637 |
| Noun (singular) | 26.11% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.37% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 157 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Gipsy, MO |
Expressions using "Gipsy": gipsy head ♦ gipsy life ♦ Gipsy moth ♦ gipsy woman. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Gipsy": gipsy-like. | |
Ending with "Gipsy": anti-gipsy. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Gipsy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gabël (gypsy), evgjit (gypsy), endacak (bum, errant, gadabout, gadder, goer, gypsy, hobo, landloper, nomad, prowler, Ranger, rangy, rover, runabout, runagate, sansculotte, staggerer, stroller, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer, wandering), cigan (egyptian, gypsy, rom, romany, tzigane), arixhi. (various references) | |
Arabic | لغة الغجر (gypsy), غجري (tzigane). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хубава черноока мургава жена (gypsy), цигански език (gypsy, romany), цигански (gypsy, romany, tzigane), циганка (gypsy), циганин (egyptian, gypsy, rom, romany, zingaro), мургава жена, мургав мъж. (various references) | |
Chinese | 吉普赛人 (Gypsies, Gypsy). (various references) | |
Czech | cikánský (gypsy, tzigane), cikán (gypsy, romany). (various references) | |
Danish | spilkop (gipsy head, warping drum, warping end, warping head, whipping drum, winch head). (various references) | |
Dutch | verhaalkop (gipsy head, warping drum, warping end, warping head, whipping drum, winch head), spilkop (gipsy head, warping drum, warping end, warping head, whipping drum, winch head), lierkop (gipsy head, warping drum, warping end, warping head, whipping drum, winch head), kop (cup, degree, head, heading, pate, title). (various references) | |
Farsi | کولی (Gypsy, Hungarian). (various references) | |
Finnish | vintturin kelapää (gipsy head, warping drum, warping end, warping head, whipping drum, winch head), mustalainen (Romany). (various references) | |
French | gitan, poupée (gipsy head), bohémien. (various references) | |
German | zigeuner (gipsies, gipsyBrit, gypsies, gypsy, romany, vagabond). (various references) | |
Greek | κεφαλή αλυσέλικτρου (gipsy head, warping drum, warping end, warping head, whipping drum, winch head), κεφαλάρι βαρούλκου (gipsy head, warping drum, warping end, warping head, whipping drum, winch head), κεφαλάρι (fountainhead), ράουλο βιντσιού (gipsy head, warping drum, warping end, warping head, whipping drum, winch head), εργατόκρανο (gipsy head, warping drum, warping end, warping head, whipping drum, winch head), αλυσέλικτρο (gipsy head, sprocket, warping drum, warping end, warping head, whipping drum, winch head), αθίγγανοσ (gypsy, romany), τσιγγάνοσ (bohemian, romany). (various references) | |
Hebrew | צועני (tzigane). (various references) | |
Hungarian | cigány (bohemian, egyptian, gippo, gypsy, rom, romany, tinker, tinkler, tzigane). (various references) | |
Italian | gitano (gypsy), zingaro (gypsy, romany, traveler, traveller), zigano (gypsy, tzigane), campana di tonneggio (gipsy head, warping drum, warping end, warping head, whipping drum, winch head), campana (bell, hopscotch). (various references) | |
Korean | 집시 (Gypsies, Gypsy). (various references) | |
Manx | shingaarey. (various references) | |
Norwegian | sigøyner (gypsy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ipsygay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | romani (gypsy, romanes), natural da boêmia (czech, czechic), cigano (bohemian, gypsy, romany, tzigane), cabeçote (yoke), cabeço do guincho (gipsy head, warping drum, warping end, warping head, whipping drum, winch head), cabeço do alador (gipsy head, warping drum, warping end, warping head, whipping drum, winch head), boêmio (bohemian, chappy, czech, czechic, knockabout, unconventional, vagabond). (various references) | |
Romanian | ursar, rom (gypsy, romany, rum), oacheş (black, dark, Spectacled, swarthy), limba ţigãneascã (gypsy, romany), ţigan (bohemian, gypsy, romany), ţigãnesc (gipsy-like, romany). (various references) | |
Russian | цыганский (gypsy, romany, tzigane), цыганка (gypsy), цыган цыганский, цыган (gypsy, rom, Rom 1, romany). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ciganski (gypsy, romany, tzigane), cigan (gypsy). (various references) | |
Spanish | gitano (gypsy, romany, tinker), virador (toner), vagabundo (down and out, drifter, erring, gypsy, outcast, piker, Ranger, rover, runagate, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer), muñón de la maquinilla (gipsy head, warping drum, warping end, warping head, whipping drum, winch head), capirón (gipsy head, warping drum, warping end, warping head, whipping drum, winch head), cíngaro (gypsy). (various references) | |
Swedish | zigenare (bohemian, Gypsy, rom, romany, tzigane), tattare (Gypsy). (various references) | |
Thai | ยิปซี. (various references) | |
Turkish | bohem hayatı sürmek, çingene gibi yaşamak (gypsy), çingene dili, çingene (didicoi, gypsy, romany, zingaro). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | циганська мова (gypsy, romany), циганський (bohemian, egyptian, gypsy, romany), циганка (egyptian, gypsy, romany), циган (bedouin, bohemian, egyptian, gypsy, romany). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bàn tròn ba chân (gipsy-table). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Gipsy": gipsying. (additional references) | |
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"Gipsy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gaspy, gipey, gips, gipse, Gipsi, gipy, Gissey, gisy, Gitsie, gps, gympsy, gypsym, gyspy, ipsy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "Gipsy" (pronounced 'Gip"sy'): Achromatopsy, Apepsy, Clumsy, Eclampsy, gassy, Leasy, Madegassy, Misy, Mucksy, Photopsy, Posy, Prosopolepsy, Pursy, Queasy, Quinsy, Slimsy, Squinsy, tansy, tipsy, tricksy, Unsonsy, Weasy. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-p-s-y" | |
-1 letter: gips, gyps, pigs, yips. | |
-2 letters: gip, gyp, pig, pis, psi, sip, spy, yip. | |
-3 letters: is, pi, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-p-s-y" | |
+1 letter: pigsty, spying. | |
+2 letters: espying, gossipy, gypsied, gypsies, pigsney, pygmies, spaying, spriggy, springy. | |
+3 letters: gipsying, glyptics, gossipry, gypseian, gypsying, gypsyish, gypsyism, palsying, pigsneys, posingly, psyching, pygmyish, pygmyism, spagyric, sphygmic, splaying, spongily, spraying, yawpings. | |
+4 letters: agrypnias, biopsying, bypassing, dysphagia, egyptians, epigynies, epigynous, gypsyisms, mistyping, piggishly, playgirls, pygmyisms, raspingly, spagyrics, sparingly, spirogyra, sprightly, springily, supplying, synapsing, syphering, syphoning, triglyphs. | |
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