Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of gippo.
Examples
“I still remember René's anger at being taken for a "gyppo".”
“Her daddy was a gyppo logger, and she grew up from Montana to Maine in the back of a rig.”
“Also included are pieces on other truly Oregon topics: Ken Kesey, Pendleton Round-Up cowboys, gyppo loggers, and more.”
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“I wouldna let 'em go t 'none but a gyppo or a friend or friend a'the lad.”
“He says ye's a right 'nuff lass, an' ye know how t 'take care of a beast-I mind ye got a gyppo there by ye, though -" he nodded towards Gwyna, who nodded back.”
“There ain't none born can take care 'f a horse like a gyppo, so's ye make sure'n lissen t' the lady, eh?”
“At the time I rationalized that it would be two or three years before the damage was felt on a large scale in the area, and I would be safely gone when a mob of commercial trappers, gyppo loggers, and fishermen tore the Riordan home apart board and nail.”
“Then I did a song about gyppo loggers written by our drummer “the jimmy roaring, the big wheels rolling, the dirt and bark a-flying”, and I could see the words burn with private meaning, with affirmation of their impoverished lives, into all those work-creased faces.”
“The steam on the highway sucked away under us, and then we began to pass cars full of families and ranchers in pickups and a few gyppo loggers that were still operating in western Montana.”
“Earlier in the afternoon a gyppo logger had told me in a bar that I might get on with a country band in Bonner.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gyppo’.
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EN - xenophobic terms
Alle Menschen werden Brüder - sooner or later? Derogatory terms for anybody different.
abe, anchor baby, ann, ape, apple, asian nigger, aunt jemima , aunt jane, aunt mary, aunt sally, banana, beaner and 315 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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A River Runs Through It
Words and phrases from A River Runs Through It, & Other Stories by Norman Maclean.
gyppo, carborundum, railroader, prat, nemo me impune la..., manse, rune, underskin, dairymaid, angleworm, snoot, scarifying and 32 more...
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Prolagus Just click the UD link. Jan 5, 2009
yarb It was a good ferret and almost immediately there was a rabbit in the net. The man I was with (a gyppo-looking type whose company I cultivated as a child but whose name evades me now) removed it from the nylon mesh.
- Peter Reading, C, 1984 Jul 4, 2008