gype

Definitions

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  • noun fool; clumsy, awkward person; long-legged person; silly girl.

Examples

  • 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.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863

  • 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

Note

The word 'gype' comes from Scots 'gype' ('foolish, awkward person').