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antigypsy

antigypsy adjective: opposing or countering gypsies; practicing or exhibiting antigypsyism.

Adjective

antigypsy (comparative more antigypsy, superlative most antigypsy)

  1. Opposing or countering gypsies; practicing or exhibiting antigypsyism.
    • This violently antigypsy diatribe, which brings together all the racial and ethnic stereotypes held in sixteenth-century Spain, was duly withdrawn from the elementary school reader...2000, Carroll B. Johnson, Cervantes and the material world, page 93
    • There is also evidence of numerous local antigypsy campaigns by police, often acting on their own initiative and not in response to complaints or orders from above.2004, Herman Roodenburg, Social Control in Europe: 1500-1800, page 216

Forms of antigypsy

comparativemore antigypsy
superlativemost antigypsy

Origin of antigypsy

From anti- + gypsy.

Questions about antigypsy

What does antigypsy mean?
Antigypsy means opposing or countering gypsies; practicing or exhibiting antigypsyism.
What part of speech is antigypsy?
Antigypsy is an adjective.

Words near antigypsy in the dictionary

  1. antigunner
  2. antigunners
  3. Antiguo Cuscatlán
  4. antiguru
  5. antigurus
  6. antigypsy
  7. antigypsyism
  8. antihacker
  9. antihackers
  10. antihacking
  11. antihadron

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