gipsiesn.

Forms: Also gips (obsolete)

Etymology: Probably only the proper name of the particular springs near Bridlington, now called the Gipsy race. (Perhaps to be compared with Old French eaux gypsées, waters containing gypsum, petrifying springs.)

With plural agreement. Intermitting springs.

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c1198 W. of Newburgh Hist. Angl. (Rolls) I. 85 In provincia Deirorum, haud procul a loco nativitatis meæ, res mirabilis contigit..Est vicus aliquot a mari orientali milliariis distans, juxta quem famosæ illæ aquæ, quas vulgo Gipse vocant, numerosa scaturigine e terra prosiliunt, non quidem jugiter, sed annis interpositis [etc.].

1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xvii. 152 Like those eruptions of waters, which in the Notherne partes of England they call Gypsies.

1691 J. Ray N. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 33 Gypsies, springs that break forth sometimes on the Woulds in Yorkshire. They are look'd upon as a Prognostick of Famine or Scarcity.

1692 J. Ray Dissol. World (1732) ii. ii. 111 The spirting Gips or natural jets d'Eaus.

1727 D. Defoe Tour Great Brit. III. i. 185 The Country People have a Notion that whenever those Gipsies, or, as some call 'em, Vipseys, break out, there will certainly ensue either Famine or Plague.

1828 G. Young Geol. Surv. Yorks. Coast (ed. 2) 25 This ebbing and flowing fountain might have some connection with the intermitting springs called Gipsies.

1856 H. C. Hamilton W. of Newburgh I. 77 (note) The village of Wold Newton, near Hunmanby, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, is remarkable for the occurrence in wet seasons of a sudden eruption of cold, clear water, locally called the ‘Gipsies,’ or the ‘Gipsey-race’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	gipsies
释义	gipsiesn. Forms: Also gips (obsolete) Etymology: Probably only the proper name of the particular springs near Bridlington, now called the Gipsy race. (Perhaps to be compared with Old French eaux gypsées, waters containing gypsum, petrifying springs.) With plural agreement. Intermitting springs. ΘΠ the world > the earth > water > spring > [noun] > intermittent gipsiesc1198 land-spring1642 c1198 W. of Newburgh Hist. Angl. (Rolls) I. 85 In provincia Deirorum, haud procul a loco nativitatis meæ, res mirabilis contigit..Est vicus aliquot a mari orientali milliariis distans, juxta quem famosæ illæ aquæ, quas vulgo Gipse vocant, numerosa scaturigine e terra prosiliunt, non quidem jugiter, sed annis interpositis [etc.]. 1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xvii. 152 Like those eruptions of waters, which in the Notherne partes of England they call Gypsies. 1691 J. Ray N. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 33 Gypsies, springs that break forth sometimes on the Woulds in Yorkshire. They are look'd upon as a Prognostick of Famine or Scarcity. 1692 J. Ray Dissol. World (1732) ii. ii. 111 The spirting Gips or natural jets d'Eaus. 1727 D. Defoe Tour Great Brit. III. i. 185 The Country People have a Notion that whenever those Gipsies, or, as some call 'em, Vipseys, break out, there will certainly ensue either Famine or Plague. 1828 G. Young Geol. Surv. Yorks. Coast (ed. 2) 25 This ebbing and flowing fountain might have some connection with the intermitting springs called Gipsies. 1856 H. C. Hamilton W. of Newburgh I. 77 (note) The village of Wold Newton, near Hunmanby, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, is remarkable for the occurrence in wet seasons of a sudden eruption of cold, clear water, locally called the ‘Gipsies,’ or the ‘Gipsey-race’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.c1198
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