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• Smooth hair, tight rippy jeans, one of those no-shoulder gypsy shirts.2021, Tracey Lange, “Jackie”, in We Are the Brennans, London: Pan Books, published 2022, →ISBN. From the entry just so
• Gypsy and jet set compression, the season of the sun celebrates the era of gypset fashion.2020 July 6, Clémence Renoux, “5 “gypset” outfits for your summer evenings”, in Do It in Paris, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2024. From the entry gypset
• She'd used the old gypsy word for gun and in her panicked state she had't even noticed.2018, Jessie Keane, Fearless: The Most Shocking and Gritty Gangland Thriller You'll Read This Year, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN. From the entry yogger
• Then he went round the gypsy saying “Howdie?” to the youngsters inside, who obviously seemed fear stricken.2016 May 21, Sunita Mudaliar, “Trying to control tourists in Umred-Karhandla is not such a good idea!”, in Nagpur Today. From the entry howdie
• Gypset style is a hybrid of jetsetting (although I prefer globetrotting) and gypsy.2012, Sibella Court, Nomad: A Global Approach to Interior Style, Chronicle Books, page 196. From the entry gypset
• English gypsy Pat Skye Lee, twenty, is breaking centuries of tradition by marrying a nongypsy.2011, Jim Nally, Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, →ISBN. From the entry nongypsy
• It's almost like getting your palm read by a traveling gypsy!2001 July 5, JMH, “reception kisses”, in alt.wedding (Usenet). From the entry aolbonics
• Usually packed, this cramped and noisy cellar bar has excellent sakuski; gypsy music.1995, Birgit Borowski, Bernhard Pollman, translated by Brenda Ferris, James Hogarth, and Julie Waller, “Restaurants”, in Moscow…. From the entry sakuska
• She wore gauchos and boots and a gypsy blouse and a vest.1978, Richard Rhodes, Holy Secrets, →ISBN, page 144. From the entry gauchos
• 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
• Avril helped herself to a gypsy cream.2014, Joan Plant, The Cure Is Sometimes.... From the entry gypsy cream
• Kevin chases after him through a forest and finds the horse with Joseph Maguire (Ian Holm), a poetry-reciting traveler (Irish gypsy).2012, Mark Connelly, The IRA on Film and Television: A History, →ISBN, page 212. From the entry traveller
• Gypsy was a wonderful mutt, a ‘pavement special’ as we say, who had a heart as big as Africa.2012 July, Lawrence Anthony, with Graham Spence, chapter 3, in The Last Rhinos: The Powerful Story of One Man’s Battle to Save a Species…. From the entry pavement special
• They were signs in gypsy language, lost patterans.2006, Cormac McCarthy, The Road. From the entry patteran
• Gypsy Rose passed me a tuna on rye.2000, Noreen Wald, Death Never Takes a Holiday. From the entry Lord love a duck
• A boy of the cheery gypsy ragamuffin variety.1984, Douglas Adams, chapter 21, in So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 112. From the entry ragamuffin
• He’s a gypsy, a wanderer, a general messer-abouter, here today and gone tomorrow and God only knows where the day after.1965, Eric Frank Russell, The Mindwarpers, New York, N.Y.: Prestige Books, published December 1972, page 127. From the entry messer-abouter
• Royal Beaudry carried about with him in his work on the Lazy Double D persistent memories of the sloe-eyed gypsy.1917, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 19, in The Sheriff's Son. From the entry sloe-eyed
• Betty Hutch would have the tea waiting for them and Beth's mouth was watering at the prospect of a gypsy cream to have with it.2019, Nadine Dorries, The Lovely Lane Box Set: Books 1-3. From the entry gypsy cream
• 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
• Yet unlike my era's greatest Afrindian brave, Jimi Hendrix, I have more often than not been an armchair gypsy, the Ezy Rider of interiors.2007, Phil Freeman, Marooned: the next generation of desert island discs, page 210. From the entry Afrindian
• 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
• However, it is not the three Maries, but their black servant Sara la Kali, who is the patron saint of the gypsies.2005, Sabine Lucas, “Part I. Journey into the Otherworld”, “Chapter 2. Past Lives from a Past Life Reading: Women on the Fringe”, in…. From the entry Maries
• Sure enough the Scots and the gypsies had introduced each other and it looked like me and Paul had a riot on our hands.2003, Julian Davies, Terry Currie, quoting Steve Wraith, Bouncers: Their Lives in Their Own Words, Milo Books, →ISBN. From the entry standard practice
• On toward dusk some little gypsy boys whittled gigs from river-birch limbs and went to a backwater and gigged frogs until they had a basketful.1997, Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 122. From the entry gig
• Gypsies enjoy a reputation for natural musicianship, and their passionate repertoire has inspired nongypsy composers such as Liszt, Brahms, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, and Strauss.1988 November 11, Achy Obejas, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2020. From the entry nongypsy
• The quiet academician was translating, but not transmuting, the gypsy beartamers who crossed the National Gardens; for the beartamers entered his poetry directly.1984, Frederic Will, Shamans in Turtlenecks, published 1 November 2021, →ISBN, page 185. From the entry bear tamer
• The quiet academician was translating, but not transmuting, the gypsy beartamers who crossed the National Gardens; for the beartamers entered his poetry directly .1984, Frederic Will, Shamans in Turtlenecks, published 1 November 2021, →ISBN, page 185. From the entry beartamer
• While searching for winter quarters, a group of gypsies celebrates the birth of a new chief and discovers why a former chief disappeared.1982, William Mayne, Winter Quarters. From the entry winter quarters
• A bit of gypsy talk, too.1974, Style, volume 8, Fayetteville, Ark.: University of Arkansas, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 475. From the entry nadsat
• The Bajau on the eastern coast of Sabah carry on their traditional connection to the water, living as sea gypsies and coming to shore only for burials.2011, Daniel White, Ron Emmons, Jennifer Eveland, Jen Lin-Liu, Frommer's Southeast Asia, page 569. From the entry Bajau
• Spray BT on your young oak to protect against gypsy moths, and you wipe out future lunas, cecropias, and everything else on the leaves, along with the pests.2010, Sally Roth (contributor), in Judy Pray (compiler), Garden Wisdom & Know-How: Everything You Need to Know to Plant, Grow, and…. From the entry luna
• And in order to move up professionally, you become a gypsy, moving from city to city and leaving boyfriends behind. lf you want a glamorama job, try news anchor.2000, Mademoiselle: The Magazine for the Smart Young Woman. From the entry glamorama
• Asocial people, the mentally and physically handicapped, gypsies, and, by far the largest group, the Jews, all fell prey to the persecution that was the outgrowth of such "theozoology".1986 February 15, Denis M. Sweet, “A Sobering History from Weimar to the Ovens”, in Gay Commmunity News, volume 14, number 39, page B6. From the entry theozoology
• He learned medicine and surgery "from executioners, bathkeepers, gypsies, midwives, and fortune tellers and incidentally acquired an unusual knowledge of folk-medicine and a permanent taste for low company."1935 September 2, “Medicine: Chemotherapy”, in Time, retrieved 08 Jun 2014. From the entry folk medicine
• On the evening of Easter Sunday the gypsies of Southern Europe take a wooden vessel like a band-box, which rests cradle-wise on two cross pieces of wood.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 208. From the entry bandbox
• The basic premise was, of course, stupid: since irradiated marigold seeds, for instance, could yield humongous blossoms, then atomic testing could transform and gigantify anything, like a technological gypsy curse.2001, David J. Skal, The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror, page 248. From the entry gigantify
• Last year, the police say, a coastguardswoman, despondent over the death of her mother, was persuaded by a gypsy fortuneteller to turn over thousands of dollars of a “cursed” inheritance.1988 May 16, Sam Roberts, “Metro Matters; Astrology Quiz: Will the Reagans Hurt Business?”, in The New York Times, section B, page 1…. From the entry coastguardswoman

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.

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Questions about gypsy in a sentence

How do you use gypsy in a sentence?

Gypsy is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “Smooth hair, tight rippy jeans, one of those no-shoulder gypsy shirts.”

What is a short sentence with gypsy?

“A bit of gypsy talk, too.”

What does gypsy mean?

Gypsy means an itinerant person or any person, not necessarily Romani; a tinker, a traveller or a carny.