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Gypsy Definition


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Gypsy
Gipsy
noun Gypsies, Gipsies
    1. (also without capital) a member of a dark-skinned travelling people, originally from NW India, now scattered throughout Europe and N America. Also called Romany.
    2. (without capital) someone who resembles or lives like a Gypsy. Also as adj.
Etymology: 17c; 16c as gipsen: from Egyptian, because they were originally thought to have come from Egypt.



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