gypsies
- 1Plural of gypsy.
Seasoned gypsies hop from one Broadway chorus line to the next, often without a break between shows.
The caller built the second half of the contra dance around two gypsies and a long partner swing.
Note
Every meaning of gypsy shares this plural, from chorus dancers who move between Broadway shows to the circling contra-dance figure. For members of the Romani people, the capitalized Gypsies is the main spelling. In colloquial use the word also covers wanderers who are not Romani at all, such as tinkers and carnival workers.
- 2Plural of gypsie.
Note
Gypsie is an archaic spelling of the singular, and its plural looks exactly like the modern one, so in an old text gypsies gives no clue which singular the writer used. Nothing else changes: the meanings are those of the ordinary plural.
gypsies is a form of gypsy
gypsy, noun: A member of the Romani people or one of its groups, such as the Roma or Sinti, or of another traditionally traveling people, such as Irish Travellers. Full entry
- Forms
- gypsygypsies plural, plural
- Spelling
- gypsy → gypsies: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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