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Plural of gypsy

regular plural

The plural of gypsy is gypsies.

Forms of gypsy

Singulargypsy /ˈd͡ʒɪp.si/
Pluralgypsies
Countablecountable

Gypsies in a sentence

  • The Bajaus, or sea gypsies, live in boats, their occupation being fishing.1905, United States. Bureau of the Census, Census of the Philippine Islands, volume 1, page 565. From the entry Bajau
  • Josephine Baker did not become the toast of Paris by just shaking her booty for some theater gypsies as a party wound down.2014 May 28, John McWhorter, “Saint Maya”, in The New Republic, →ISSN. From the entry toast
  • Do not cast pearls before gypsies!" he mussitated, walking on, and did not stop until he reached the churchyard, where he faced a peculiar sight.2014, Magdalena Zyzak, “In which Odolechka is Introduced to the Automobile, a Technology hitherto Largely in the Domain of Rumor”, in The…. From the entry mussitate
  • Gypsies from Germany, whom de Wendler-Funaro refers to as Chikkeners (Pennsylvania German, from the German Zigeuner), sometimes refer to themselves as 'Black Dutch'.2008, Migrations: Gypsies in the United States, Smithsonian Institution. From the entry Black Dutch
  • Nadezhda Osipovna’s singing reminded Vasily Lvovich of the husky songs of gypsies and swarthy pharaohesses, not the songs of fair ladies, and pleased him greatly.2007, Young Pushkin: A Novel, translation of original by Tynyanov, Yury, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry pharaohess

Meaning of gypsy

  1. noun An itinerant person or any person, not necessarily Romani; a tinker, a traveller or a carny.
  2. noun 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.).
  3. noun A member of a Broadway musical chorus line.

Full definition of gypsy

Questions about the plural of gypsy

What is the plural of gypsy?
The plural of gypsy is gypsies.
Is gypsy countable?
Gypsy is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gypsy (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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