gorgio

Whenever I read some novel about Gypsies and see the ostensibly Hungarian or Romanian Gypsy characters using words like "gorgio" or "kushti" I immediately know the writer has spent a lot more time in the library than speaking with Roma.

languagehat.com: THE ENGLISH GYPSIES AND THEIR LANGUAGE. 2005

Whereupon I answers, “It all comes of my son Jasper, who brings the gorgio to our fire, and must needs be teaching him.”

Lavengro 2004

‘You are mad, bebee; leave the fellow — gorgio avella.’

Lavengro 2004

At the fan and sacrament; with a heavy heart I put seven score miles between us, came back to the hairy ones, and found them over-given to gorgious companions; said I, “Foolish manners is catching; all this comes of that there gorgio.”

Lavengro 2004

The whole party makes an almighty of this gorgio, lets him into their ways, says prayers of his making, till things come to such a pass that my own daughter says to me, “I shall buy myself a veil and fan, and treat myself to a play and sacrament.”

Lavengro 2004

You say you like him: in that we differs; I hates the gorgio, and would like, speaking Romanly, to mix a little poison with his waters.

Lavengro 2004

Am turned out of prison, and go back to the hairy ones, who receive me not over courteously; says I, for their unkindness, and my own foolishness, all the thanks to that gorgio.

Lavengro 2004

“Nothing at all, master,” says I; “something about the weather”; when who should start up from behind a pale, where he has been listening, but this ugly gorgio, crying out, “They are after poisoning your pigs, neighbour!” so that we are glad to run,

Lavengro 2004

‘Hey, bebee!’ cried the girl; ‘what is this? what do you mean? you have blessed the gorgio!’

Lavengro 2004

“Half Romany dial,” the man said, “and half gorgio.”

Greenwitch Susan Cooper 2002