Read full poem →(To-day she looks a cross between
Gipsy and Fairy, red and green,)
She always happens to do well.
Dictionary Entry
(sometimes offensive) A member of the Romani people, or one of the sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichal, etc).
Origin
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Common Phrases
. gipsymoth gipsywoman gipsygirl gipsylife gipsysmith gipsygipsy scholargipsy old
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Poetry examples for “gipsy”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →With crimes yet undiscovered or undone.
But at the inn the Gipsy dame began:
"Now he was what I call a gentleman.
Read full poem →On the half rotten ashtree's topmost twig,
Beside whose trunk the gipsy makes his bed.
Up flies the bouncing woodcock from the brig
Read full poem →Then thinks upon the fire and hurries back;
The gipsy knocks his hands and tucks them up,
And seeks his squalid camp, half hid in snow,
Read full poem →How oft on Sundays, when Pd time to tramp,
My rambles led me to a gipsy's camp.
Where the real effigy of midnight hags.
Read full poem →Stagyrus.
To a Gipsy Child.
The Hayswater Boat.
Read full poem →I have seen my little lady once more,
Jacynth, the Gipsy, Berold, and the rest of it,
For to me spoke the Duke, as I told you before;
Read full poem →Ilk ghaist that haunts auld ha’ or chaumer,
Ye gipsy-gang that deal in glamour,
And you, deep-read in hell’s black grammar,
Read full poem →Why desert ye your auld native shire?
Your muse is a gipsy, yet were she e’en tipsy,
She could ca’us nae waur than we are,