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kipsy

kipsy noun: a house or shelter.

Noun (1)

kipsy (plural kipsies)

  1. (Australia) A house or shelter.

Verb

kipsy (third-person singular simple present kipsies, present participle kipsying, simple past and past participle kipsied)

  1. To board, to reside.
    • “[…]It′s some kind of boarding-house that she kipsies in—”2007, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 155

Noun (2)

kipsy (plural kipsies)

  1. (obsolete, slang) A basket.

Forms of kipsy

Noun
pluralkipsies
alternative formkibsey
Verb
third-person singular presentkipsies
present participlekipsying
past participlekipsied
pastkipsied
alternative formkipsie

Origin of kipsy

From kips (“plural of kip (lodging-house or sleep)”) + -y (“diminutive suffix”).

Questions about kipsy

What does kipsy mean?
Kipsy means a house or shelter.
What part of speech is kipsy?
Kipsy can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of kipsy?
The plural of kipsy is kipsies.

Words near kipsy in the dictionary

  1. Kipsigiis
  2. Kipsigis
  3. Kipsikiis
  4. kipskin
  5. kipskins
  6. kipsy
  7. kipsying
  8. kipu
  9. kipuka
  10. kipukas
  11. kipunji

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