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Definition: Gypsy |
GypsyAdjective1. Of or relating to the Gypsies or their language or culture; "Romani nomads"; "Romany folk songs"; "a Gypsy fortune-teller". Noun1. A member of a nomadic people originating in northern India and now living on all continents. 2. The Indic language of the Gypsies. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Gypsy" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a gypsy". |
Date "Gypsy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references) |
Etymology: Gypsy \Gyp"sy\, noun; plural Gypsies. [Old English Gypcyan, French gyptien Egyptian, gypsy, Latin Aegyptius. See Egyptian.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Gypsy Specification and verification of concurrent systems software. Message passing using named mailboxes. Separately compilable units: routine (procedure, function, or process), type and constant definition, each with a list of access rights. ["Report on the Language Gypsy", A.L. Ambler et al, UT Austin ICSCS-CMP-1976-08-1]. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Dream Interpretation | If you dream of visiting a gypsy camp, you will have an offer of importance and will investigate the standing of the parties to your disadvantage. For a woman to have a gypsy tell her fortune, is an omen of a speedy and unwise marriage. If she is already married, she will be unduly jealous of her husband. For a man to hold any conversation with a gypsy, he will be likely to lose valuable property. To dream of trading with a gypsy, you will lose money in speculation. This dream denotes that material pleasures are the biggest items in your life. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Gypsy (See Gipsy .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Gypsy: A Musical Fable is a musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. and a book by Arthur Laurents. It is loosely based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, the famous striptease artist, and focuses on her struggle with her mother, Mama Rose, whose name has become synonymous with "the ultimate show business mother." It contains many songs that became popular standards, including "Small World," "Everything's Coming Up Roses," "You'll Never Get Away from Me," and "Let Me Entertain You."
The original staging, produced by David Merrick, opened on May 21, 1959 and starred Ethel Merman and Jack Klugman, with Sandra Church in the title role. Choreography was by Jerome Robbins.
In 1962, Warner Bros. released a film version, starring, respectively, Rosalind Russell, Karl Malden, and Natalie Wood. Lisa Kirk dubbed Rosalind Russell's singing voice.
The musical has been revived three times on Broadway, running from 1974-1975 with Angela Lansbury as Rose, from 1989-1991 with Tyne Daly initially as Rose, later replaced by Linda Lavin, and most recently in 2003 with Bernadette Peters.
The musical was also adapted as a television movie in 1993 with Bette Midler playing Rose.
A 1998 production featuring Betty Buckley and Debbie Gibson at the Paper Mill Playhouse never made it to Broadway, but became a subject of some notoriety in the theatre community when e-mails from an anonymous cast member detailing the backstage behaviour of the stars became public. The author was eventually revealed as John Flynn, who has now done several New York stagings of his cabaret act (with parodies of Gypsy songs), Dances with Pitchforks, based on his experiences portraying non-Equity Farmboy 5.
External links: Patrin: Romani Culture and History
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Gypsy."
Synonyms: GypsySynonyms: Romani (adj), Bohemian (n), Gipsy (n), Romany (n), Rommany (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deceiver | Quack, charlatan, mountebank, saltimbanco, saltimbanque, empiric, quacksalver, medicaster, Rosicrucian, gypsy; man of straw. |
Humorist | Buffoon, farceur, merry-andrew, mime, tumbler, acrobat, mountebank, charlatan, posturemaster, harlequin, punch, pulcinella, scaramouch, clown; wearer of the cap and bells, wearer of the motley; motley fool; pantaloon, gypsy; jack-pudding, jack in the green, jack a dandy; wiseacre, wise guy, smartass; fool. |
Neologism | Dialect, brogue, idiom, accent, patois; provincialism, regionalism, localism; broken English, lingua franca; Anglicism, Briticism, Gallicism, Scotticism, Hibernicism; Americanism; Gypsy lingo, Romany; pidgin, pidgin English, pigeon English; Volapuk, Chinook, Esperanto, Hindustani, kitchen Kaffir. |
Traveler | Tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club; peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler; bird of passage; gadabout, gadling; vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling; loafer; tramp, tramper; vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer; peripatetic; somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee; beach comber, booly; globegirdler, globetrotter; vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker; noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman; trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Gypsy |
| English words defined with "Gypsy": gitana, gitano, Gypsey, Gypsies, Gypsyism ♦ Romani, Romany ♦ Zingaro. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Gypsy": Bacillus thuringiensis ♦ DNA Transposable Elements ♦ pest-control worker. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Gypsy": Romany. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The gypsy said it would (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) True or false, Paul - Gypsy folklore says that God created man by baking him in an oven (The Hollywood Squares; writing credit: Gary Johnson) Just as the Gypsy Queen must do, You're gonna hit the road (Tommy; writing credit: Pete Townshend; Ken Russell) I'll show him what he could be now, Just give me one more night! I'm the Gypsy, the Acid Queen, Pay me before I start (Tommy; writing credit: Pete Townshend; Ken Russell) | |
Lyrics | Back to the gypsy that I was (Gypsy; performing artist: Fleetwood Mac; writing credit: Stevie Nicks) Gypsy lady you're a miracle work for me (My Maria; performing artist: BROOKS & DUNN) We stood at the alter the gypsy swore our future was right (BRILLIANT DISGUISE; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) Did the gypsy read your palm (Feel So High; performing artist: Des'ree) In a hand painted night, me and Gypsy Scotty are partners (Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First); performing artist: John Mellencamp; writing credit: John Mellencamp and George Green) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Jitsuroku: Gypsy Rose (1974) Maeumui gypsy (1974) The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970) Gypsy James (1967) The Gypsy Rose Lee Show (1958) | |
Song Titles | Gypsy (performing artist: Fleetwood Mac) Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose (performing artist: Tony Orlando & Dawn) Gypsy Man (performing artist: War) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Theater & Movies | |
Music |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Gypsy the Watchman - or where dogs rode before pickup trucks Triangulation party of E. W. Eickelberg. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Oh for the gypsy life On the move with new-fangled trailers Triangulation party of Carl I. Aslakson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Aleiodes indiscretus wasp parasitizing a gypsy moth caterpillar. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | Gypsy moth caterpillars are the number one forest and shade tree pest in the Northeast. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | [Childbirth is a Gypsy camp] Jacques Callot. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Visitors at Gypsy Camp. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Gypsy mother and babe by the wayside near Orsova, Hungary [i.e., Rumania]. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Gypsy encampment Glenwood Road. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Seventy-one years, or, My life with photography. Gypsy Rose Lee under the Bougereau, Sept. 23, 1943. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Daniel Paul Higgins, Gypsy Trail Club, residence in Carmel, New York. Bedroom I. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Children | Spain | According to a report by the NGO Gypsy Presence, one-fifth of teachers describe themselves as anti-Roma, and one-fourth of students say that they would like to see Roma expelled from school. (references) |
Minorities | Spain | A 2000 report by Gypsy Presence claims that one-third of Roma families are not economically self-sufficient. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Gypsy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.55% of the time. "Gypsy" is used about 414 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 98.55% | 408 | 13,799 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.45% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 414 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "Gypsy" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a gypsy". | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "Gypsy". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Gypsy | Female | English | A gypsy |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "Gypsy": gypsy cab ♦ gypsy dancing ♦ gypsy girl ♦ Gypsy hat ♦ gypsy language ♦ gypsy life ♦ gypsy moth ♦ gypsy Rose Lee ♦ Gypsy winch ♦ gypsy woman. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Gypsy": gypsy-eyed, gypsy-fashion, gypsy-like, gypsy-loving, gypsy-sailor, gypsy-style, gypsy-woman. | |
Ending with "Gypsy": non-gypsy. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
gypsy | 1,045 | gypsy history | 43 |
gypsy king | 307 | gypsy vanner horse | 40 |
gypsy moth | 214 | gypsy music | 39 |
gypsy rose lee | 179 | gypsy name | 37 |
gypsy chat | 161 | 7 gypsy | 35 |
broadway gypsy | 91 | caterpillar gypsy moth | 33 |
gypsy rose | 87 | gypsy lyrics | 29 |
gypsy vanner | 84 | bernadette gypsy peter | 28 |
at the gypsy tea room | 77 | sea gypsy | 28 |
the gypsy moths | 76 | gypsy magic | 28 |
gypsy musical | 68 | gypsy woman | 27 |
gypsy clothing | 63 | clothes gypsy | 27 |
cold fortune gypsy psychic reader reading scam teller | 61 | gypsy culture | 27 |
gypsy picture | 57 | gypsy scams | 21 |
gypsy pic | 56 | gypsy language | 20 |
gypsy costume | 54 | gypsy joker | 20 |
gypsy horse | 53 | gypsy skirt | 20 |
gypsy king lyrics | 52 | gypsy photo | 19 |
gypsy caravan | 48 | gypsy ticket | 19 |
gypsy wagon | 46 | american gypsy | 19 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Gypsy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | sigeuner. (various references) | |
Albanian | gabël (gipsy), evgjit (gipsy), endacak (bum, errant, gadabout, gadder, gipsy, goer, hobo, landloper, nomad, prowler, Ranger, rangy, rover, runabout, runagate, sansculotte, staggerer, stroller, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer, wandering), cigan (egyptian, gipsy, rom, romany, tzigane), arxhi. (various references) | |
Arabic | لغة الغجر (gipsy), الغجري (romany). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | скитам като циганин, хубава черноока мургава жена (gipsy), цигански език (gipsy, romany), цигански (gipsy, romany, tzigane), циганка (gipsy), циганин (egyptian, gipsy, rom, romany, zingaro), лагерувам храня се на открито. (various references) | |
Chinese | 吉普賽人 , 吉普赛人 (Gipsy, Gypsies). (various references) | |
Czech | romský, rom, cikánský (gipsy, tzigane), cikán (gipsy, romany). (various references) | |
Danish | sigøjner. (various references) | |
Dutch | zigeuner. (various references) | |
Esperanto | cigano. (various references) | |
Faeroese | sigoyni. (various references) | |
Farsi | کولی (Gipsy, Hungarian), شبیه کولی . (various references) | |
French | tzigane. (various references) | |
German | zigeuner (gipsies, gipsy, gipsyBrit, gypsies, romany, vagabond). (various references) | |
Greek | γύφτοσ (black smith, romany), αθίγγανοσ (gipsy, romany). (various references) | |
Hungarian | cigány (bohemian, egyptian, gippo, gipsy, rom, romany, tinker, tinkler, tzigane). (various references) | |
Indonesian | orang gipsi. (various references) | |
Italian | zingaro (gipsy, romany, traveler, traveller). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ジカルボン酸 (dicarboxylic acid, dicyanogen, diphenyl, diphtheria, distemper, distoma, dysprosium, dystrophy, feminine form of gigolo, gigolette, gigolo, gigue, Givenchy, gypsy look, Holy War, Japanese Industrial Standard, Jekyll and Hyde, jib, jig, jigsaw puzzle, JIS, JIS mark, jitter, jitterbug, syphilis, zig-zag, zigzag demonstration, ZIP code, Zipangu, Zipper, Zippo). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ジプシー . (various references) | |
Korean | 집시 (Gipsy, Gypsies). (various references) | |
Norwegian | sigøyner (gipsy). (various references) | |
Papiamen | gitano. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ypsygay.(various references) | |
Polish | Cygan. (various references) | |
Portuguese | cigano (bohemian, gipsy, romany, tzigane). (various references) | |
Romanian | vagabond (bum, gadabout, hobo, landloper, mudlark, range, rogue, rover, runabout, scalawag, stray, tramp, vagabond, vagrant), rom (gipsy, romany, rum), limba ţigãneascã (gipsy, romany), ţigan (bohemian, gipsy, romany). (various references) | |
Russian | цыганский (gipsy, romany, tzigane), цыганка (gipsy), цыган;цыганка цыганский, цыган (gipsy, rom, Rom 1, romany). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ciganski (gipsy, romany, tzigane), cigan (gipsy). (various references) | |
Spanish | gitano (gipsy, romany, tinker). (various references) | |
Swedish | zigenare (bohemian, gipsy, rom, romany, tzigane). (various references) | |
Turkish | bohem hayat sürdürmek, çingenece (romany), çingene gibi yaşamak (gipsy), çingene (didicoi, gipsy, romany, zingaro), çíngene. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | циганська мова (gipsy, romany), циганський (bohemian, egyptian, gipsy, romany), циганка (egyptian, gipsy, romany), циган (bedouin, bohemian, egyptian, gipsy, romany). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Gypsy": gypsydom, gypsydoms, gypsying, gypsyish, gypsyism, gypsyisms. (additional references) | |
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"Gypsy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gipey, Gipsi, gipy, gisy, gps, gympsy, gypps, gyppy, gypsa, gypsie, gypso, gypsym, gypsys, gypt, gyspy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Gypsy" (pronounced ji"psē) |
| 4 | -i" p s ē | tipsy. |
| 3 | -p s ē | autopsy, bankruptcy, biopsy, dropsy, epilepsy, narcolepsy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-p-s-y-y" | |
-1 letter: gyps. | |
-2 letters: gyp, spy. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-p-s-y-y" | |
+3 letters: gypsydom, gypsying, gypsyish, gypsyism, pygmyish, pygmyism. | |
+4 letters: gypsydoms, gypsyisms, pygmyisms. | |
+5 letters: hypogynies, hypogynous, physiology, polygynies, polygynous, psychology. | |
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