gypsifyv.
/ˈdʒɪpsᵻfʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈdʒɪpsəˌfaɪ/, /ˈdʒɪpsiˌfaɪ/ transitive. To make Romani in appearance or character. Also intransitive: to become Romani (rare).
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a1627 T. Middleton More Dissemblers besides Women iv. ii in 2 New Playes (1657) 53 Which hoping you'll observe, to try thee With rusty Bacon, thus I Gipsifie thee.
1873 C. G. Leland Eng. Gipsies & their Lang. i. 4 He may be, of his kind, a quadroon or octoroon, or he may have ‘gipsified’ by marrying a Gipsy wife.
1884 Ld. Tennyson Becket iv. ii. 154 I will hide my face, Blacken and gipsyfy it; none shall know me.
2002 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 3 Jan. 7 Gypsies have always ‘gypsified’ the local folklore of wherever they were.
Derivatives
ˈgypsyfied adj. made Romani in appearance or character. With quot. 2009 compare Gypsy n. and adj. Compounds 1e.
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1828 Imperial Mag. Apr. 355 Heathen mythology is but an ape of the religion of the Bible, and their fables garbled and gypsified transpositions of the record of God.
1882 T. Mozley Reminisc. Oriel II. lxxix. 68 A fine strapping lass, of a fair complexion, honest and simple, but very gipsyfied in her manner and style of dress.
2009 Illawarra (Austral.) Mercury (Nexis) 6 Nov. 9 A gypsified version of a very popular 1960s pop tune.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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