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  • adjective Like a gypsy.

Etymologies

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gypsy +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • 'My teacher really took a shine to me because I looked kind of gypsyish,' says Oona.

    Evening Standard - Home 2010

  • Oh, the general concepts appeal to me--the peasant skirts, the flowy shapes and gypsyish attitude, but it's all over-embellished and overwrought with beading and sequins and tacky lace.

    busy, busy Holly 2006

  • Oh, the general concepts appeal to me--the peasant skirts, the flowy shapes and gypsyish attitude, but it's all over-embellished and overwrought with beading and sequins and tacky lace.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Holly 2006

  • Gliding past a mirror, I was accompanied by someone beautiful: her hair filled with lights, eyes deep with plots, gypsyish dress a splash of color in the dusk.

    Earthly Possessions Tyler, Anne 1977

  • This Alberta was a gypsyish type, beautiful in certain lights and carelessly dressed, slouchy, surprisingly young.

    Earthly Possessions Tyler, Anne 1977

  • She exchanged pleasant nods with those she met -- all liked her gay, gypsyish face and easy manners -- and was in great good humor when the school-house was reached.

    Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls Fannie E. Newberry

  • There was a fat old pony named Tubby that drew the phaeton, and Tubby jogged along the pleasant country roads with them in a most delightfully gypsyish way.

    Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret Alice B. Emerson

  • We were accompanied by several bands of a gypsyish-looking people, forming parts of a _cafilah_.

    Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

  • As most have clear olive complexion, with rich color in the cheeks, arid lustrous black eyes, this headdress is surprisingly becoming, giving quite a gypsyish effect.

    Over the Border: Acadia, the Home of "Evangeline"

  • My feet were trudging the macadam, though growing more gypsyish each moment, when the flash of a red leaf on

    The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers 1918

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