Word Meanings - ROMANY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A gypsy.

GYPSY MOTH; GIPSY MOTH
A tussock moth native of the Old World, but accidentally introduced into eastern Massachusetts about 1869, where its caterpillars have done great damage to fruit, shade, and forest trees of many kinds. The male gypsy moth is yellowish brown, the
GYPSY
1. One of a vagabond race, whose tribes, coming originally from India, entered Europe in 14th or 15th centry, and are now scattered over Turkey, Russia, Hungary, Spain, England, etc., living by theft, fortune telling, horsejockeying, tinkering,
GYPSYISM
1. The arts and practices or habits of gypsies; deception; cheating; flattery. 2. The state of a gypsy.
GYPSYWORT
A labiate plant . Gypsies are said to stain their skin with its juice.