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  • adjective Like a gipsy.

Etymologies

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gipsy +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • This area has a gipsyish sort of charm of its own.

    The things people do for a bit of money! appleleaf 2009

  • This area has a gipsyish sort of charm of its own.

    Archive 2009-05-01 appleleaf 2009

  • 'Not young but handsome in a gipsyish sort of way.

    A Mirror Cracked From Side To Side Christie, Agatha 1962

  • All should have a wild, picturesque gipsyish look.

    Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People Constance D'Arcy Mackay

  • We lighted a little fire of sticks and fir-cones, so as to be as gipsyish as we could, and we sat round the fire.

    New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925

  • She came in, a brilliant, handsome young creature, in rough, well - worn walking attire, and a gipsyish hat.

    Saturday's Child Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • Cherry was at eighteen, pretty in a gipsyish way, untidy as to hair, with round black eyes, high, thin cheek-bones marked with scarlet, and a wide, humorous mouth that was somehow droll in its expression even when she was angry or serious.

    Sisters Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • But to little Eve Edgarton's cosmopolitan ears each familiar gipsyish word thus strangely transplanted into that alien room was like a call to the wild -- from the wild.

    Little Eve Edgarton Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915

  • As he speaks, GLADYS FREMAN, a dark gipsyish girl, and CONNIE

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • The door is opened and FREMAN, a dark gipsyish man in the dress of a farmer, comes in.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

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