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gypsy

[jip-see] / ˈdʒɪp si /
NOUN
(offensive) a Romani person
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Heat-treating wood, for example, can also help ward off the gypsy moth, spotted lanternfly and the Asian long-horned beetle, Tamm said.

From Los Angeles Times May 28, 2024

"All he wanted was to be home with me and his pet kitty, Charley, playing his gypsy guitar."

From BBC Dec. 5, 2023

In 2022, for instance, the Entomological Society of America adopted spongy moth for the invasive moth Lymantria dispar, getting rid of gypsy moth.

From Science Magazine Sep. 5, 2023

An infestation of gypsy moths was visible on the trunk; gauzy deposits of tiny eggs were imperiling the tree’s health.

From New York Times Sep. 13, 2021

Ordinarily this would have been so—if the summer, the gypsy days, had not intervened.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

Heidegger’s noble guests cavorted as milkmaids, chimney sweeps, gypsies, “Indian kings” and even a “nude” Adam wearing a body stocking and fig leaves.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

In 1983, he wrote and directed “Angelo, My Love,” a drama inspired by and starring gypsies Duvall came to know in New York City.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 16, 2026

Looking on were the usual suspects of Rio’s Carnival scene: revelers dressed as folkloric characters, jaguars, gypsies and ‘bate-bolas’ – exuberant clowns in identical, elaborate outfits who travel in packs.

From Seattle Times Feb. 9, 2024

In “The World Doesn’t End,” he wrote: “I was stolen by the gypsies. My parents stole me right back. / Then the gypsies stole me again. This went on for some time.”

From New York Times Jan. 9, 2023

Defeated by those practices of consolation, José Arcadio Buendía then decided to build the memory machine that he had desired once in order to remember the marvelous inventions of the gypsies.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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