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- Gypsy - n. - 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, etc. Cf. Bohemian, Romany.
- Gypsy - n. - The language used by the gypsies.
- Gypsy - n. - A dark-complexioned person.
- Gypsy - n. - A cunning or crafty person
- Gypsy - a. - Pertaining to, or suitable for, gypsies.
- Gypsy - v. i. - To play the gypsy; to picnic in the woods.
- Gypsyism - n. - The arts and practices or habits of gypsies; deception; cheating; flattery.
- Gypsyism - n. - The state of a gypsy.
- Gypsywort - n. - A labiate plant (the Lycopus Europaeus). Gypsies are said to stain their skin with its juice.
- Bohemian - n. - A restless vagabond; -- originally, an idle stroller or gypsy (as in France) thought to have come from Bohemia; in later times often applied to an adventurer in art or literature, of irregular, unconventional habits, questionable tastes, or free morals.
- Bohemian - n. - Of or pertaining to a social gypsy or "Bohemian" (see Bohemian, n., 3); vagabond; unconventional; free and easy.