Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Gipsy mode of life or conduct; the act of consorting with or living like Gipsies.
- noun The act of playing Gipsy, or making holiday in the woods and fields; picnicking.
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Examples
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Despite her encouragement he gave no fuller account of the "gipsying" than, "Why -- uh -- we just tramped down," till Russian-Jewish Yilyena rolled her ebony eyes at him and insisted, "Yez, you mus 'tale us about it."
Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Sinclair Lewis 1918
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Despite her encouragement he gave no fuller account of the "gipsying" than, "Why -- uh -- we just tramped down," till Russian-Jewish Yilyena rolled her ebony eyes at him and insisted, "Yez, you mus 'tale us about it."
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This kind of gipsying expedition to the sea in summer would hardly suit the form of European, or at least British civilisation; but we do not see why, in the one continent more than in the other, one's country lodgings should be required to resemble a town-house.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 439 Volume 17, New Series, May 29, 1852 Various 1841
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Enter the single-minded Dick, whose only fault at the gipsying, or picnic, had been that of loving Fancy too exclusively, and depriving himself of the innocent pleasure the gathering might have afforded him, by sighing regretfully at her absence, — who had danced with the rival in sheer despair of ever being able to get through that stale, flat, and unprofitable afternoon in any other way; but this she would not believe.
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I think your gipsying down from London was most exciting.
Our Mr. Wrenn 2004
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He was whistling tenderly, staring at the furnace with eyes which saw the black-domed monster as a symbol of home and of the beloved routine to which he had returned — his gipsying decently accomplished, his duty of viewing “sights” and “curios” performed with thoroughness.
Main Street 2004
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And, lastly, I want to tell you that I do not envy you so much, any more, for in these chapters, one after another, through your grace, I have gone gipsying with you all.
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Altogether she was a cozy, satisfactory ship, and they were a fortunate company who had her all to themselves and went out on her on that long-ago ocean gipsying.
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He recalled long after how once they lost themselves in trying to solve the mystery of the emotional effect of certain word-combinations — certain phrases and lines of verse — as, for instance, the wild, free breath of the open that one feels in “the days when we went gipsying a long time ago” and the tender, sunlit, grassy slope and mossy headstones suggested by the simple words, “departed this life.”
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A happy gipsying it was, and she, the queen, forgot her cares.
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
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