gypsy

Definition

Alternative form of Gypsy (“member of the Romani people”).

Etymology

See Gypsy. Compare bohemian, from Bohemia.

Example Sentences

• "He championed the music of the gypsies as he did the Muslim and Jewish roots of Spanish culture. […] All these and more were fused in the forge of the gypsy experience into a singular art form, unlike any of its sources, evoking its own worldview, its own existential stance."
• "Like a right gypsy, hath, at fast and loose, Beguiled me to the very heart of loss."