gypsying

Verb

gypsy (third-person singular simple present gypsies, present participle gypsying, simple past and past participle gypsied)

1. (intransitive) To roam around the country like a gypsy.
   • The rest of the day is spent out of doors "Gypsying", and families greatly enjoy themselves on these occasions.1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XX, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 199 footnote
2. To perform the gypsy step in contra dancing.
   • Look at the person you're gypsying with, and convey the message that you notice them as a person and that you're glad that they're there, […]1992 April 7, win...@ssrl01.slac.stanford.edu, “contra-gypsies”, in rec.folk-dancing (Usenet)

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Noun

gipsying (plural gipsyings)

1. (archaic) An excursion into the countryside.
   • His friend Finlay had returned from the West Indies, and, making a tour through England and Ireland, bent his steps to the North to revisit the scenes of his youthful gipsyings with Miller.1871, Peter Bayne, The Life and Letters of Hugh Miller