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gipsie

gipsie is the archaic spelling of gypsy.

Meaning of gypsy

Noun

gypsy (plural gypsies)

  1. (colloquial) An itinerant person or any person, not necessarily Romani; a tinker, a traveller or a carny.
    • Like a right gypsy, hath, at fast and loose, Beguiled me to the very heart of loss.c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
  2. (offensive, sometimes) A move in contra dancing in which two dancers walk in a circle around each other while maintaining eye contact (but not touching as in a swing). (Compare whole gyp, half gyp, and gypsy meltdown, in which this step precedes a swing.)
    Synonyms:
    gyre, gyp, gip
  3. A member of a Broadway musical chorus line.
  4. (dated) A person with a dark complexion.
  5. (dated) A sly, roguish woman.
  6. (colloquial, dated) A fortune teller.

See all 14 meanings of gypsy

Forms of gipsie

pluralgipsies

Questions about gipsie

What is gipsie the archaic spelling of?
Gipsie is the archaic spelling of gypsy.

Words near gipsie in the dictionary

  1. gipsers
  2. gipsey
  3. gipseyed
  4. gipseying
  5. gipseys
  6. gipsie
  7. gipsied
  8. gipsies
  9. Gipson
  10. Gipsons
  11. gipster

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gipsie (page history and authors); gypsy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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