Definitions
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- noun Ulster
fool ;clumsy ,awkward person;long-legged person;silly girl
Etymologies
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From Scots gype ("foolish, awkward person") (compare Old Norse geip ("nonsense")).
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Examples
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Tugging the boys after her in the manner of a tow-boat, she thumped past her father and "that gype, McKinstry, colloging over their bits of rock," indignation in every twist of her square shoulders.
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An 'what 's ten times mair exterord'nar, there's the Duke o' Gordon jist lattin 'the gype tak 's wull o' the hoose a 'his grace's ain forbears!
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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Anyway I'm lying there feeling foolish and winded when out of the corner of my eye I see that gype Matty climbing up towards me.
planet.journals.ie 2008
qms commented on the word gype
The Scot has his kilts and his pipes
And names for the scorn-worthy types:
The treacherous skellums
And obnoxious blellums,
Ungainly and foolhardy gypes.
April 21, 2017