gypsying

1. 1
   verboffensive

   Present participle and gerund of gypsy.

   After college she went gypsying from town to town, picking up work wherever she could.

   Partners gypsying in the center of the line keep their eyes on each other the whole time.

   Note

   The y stays before -ing, as it does in carrying and burying. In the roaming sense the form often comes after go, in the same pattern as go fishing or go hiking: they went gypsying across the country all summer. In a contra dance it describes two partners circling each other.

2. 2
   nounarchaic

   Alternative form of gipsying.

   Note

   Older writing used it for a day out in the countryside, spelled with y or with i (gipsying), and it counts like any noun: a gypsying, two gypsyings. It should not be confused with the verb for roaming, since a village gypsying was an outing, not a life on the road.

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