Crossword clues for gypsies
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gypsy \Gyp"sy\ (j[i^]p"s[y^]), n.; pl. Gypsies (j[i^]p"s[i^]z). [OE. Gypcyan, F. ['e]gyptien Egyptian, gypsy, L. Aegyptius. See Egyptian.] [Also spelled gipsy and gypsey.]
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One of a vagabond race, whose tribes, coming originally from India, entered Europe in the 14th or 15th century, and are now scattered over Turkey, Russia, Hungary, Spain, England, etc., living by theft, fortune telling, horsejockeying, tinkering, etc. Cf. Bohemian, Romany.
Like a right gypsy, hath, at fast and loose, Beguiled me to the very heart of loss.
--Shak. The language used by the gypsies.
A dark-complexioned person.
--Shak.A cunning or crafty person. [Colloq.]
--Prior.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (gypsy English) 2 (plural of gypsie English)
Wikipedia
Gypsies is an album by Argentine composer, pianist and conductor Lalo Schifrin recorded in 1978 and released on the Tabu label.
Usage examples of "gypsies".
As a kid growing up in New York he'd heard Gypsies had the gift of prophecy.
Billy Halleck remembered how they had seen the Gypsies for the first time.
The Gypsies had come to Raintree directly from Fairview, he told Cary.
Spurton had said the Gypsies were camped in a field two miles up the road.
But for now he still felt sick to his too-large stomach at the thought of Gypsies, and hoped heartily he would never see another in his life.
They were brightly dressed, but not in the peasant garb an older person might have associated with the Hollywood version of Gypsies in the thirties and forties.
Most of the others abroad on the common that day had been there for the same reason, a fact the Gypsies undoubtedly knew.
He was beginning not to see the Gypsies, who had made the mistake of stopping in Fairview on their way from Hoot to Holler.
Fairview's chief of police, rouster of Gypsies, who looked like a bush-league Clint Eastwood.
Rather than make an issue of their continuing presence - Gypsies, he told Cary, could be as ugly as ground wasps if you poked them too hard - he decided to let them work the departing flea-market crowds.
Sometime between sundown and sunup, the Gypsies had left the field, left Raintree, left Patchin County .
There was always a farm, always a sour old farmer, and the Gypsies always found him.
Those who wanted to buy some of whatever the gypsies were selling could drive out the West Fairview Road to the Arncaster place.
Arncaster went to the Gypsies, refunded the balance of whatever sum they had agreed upon for rent, and had undoubtedly turned a deaf ear to any protests they might have made (Halleck was thinking specifically of the young man with the bowling pins, who apparently had not as yet comprehended the immutability of his station in life).
It wasn't as if the Gypsies had a signed lease that would stand up in court.