Gypsy in a sentence

Gypsy meaning

1. Alternative form of Gypsy (“member of the Romani people”).
2. An itinerant person or any person, not necessarily Romani; a tinker, a traveller or a carny.
3. A move in contra dancing in which two dancers walk in a circle around each other while maintaining eye contact (but not touching as in a swing). (Compare whole gyp, half gyp, and gypsy meltdown, in which this step precedes a swing.)

Using Gypsy

• The main meaning on this page is: Alternative form of Gypsy (“member of the Romani people”). | An itinerant person or any person, not necessarily Romani; a tinker, a traveller or a carny. | A move in contra dancing in which two dancers walk in a circle around each other while maintaining eye contact (but not touching as in a swing). (Compare whole gyp, half gyp, and gypsy meltdown, in which this step precedes a swing.)
• Useful related words include: gipsy, romany, sanskrit, indian.
• Possible Dutch translations are: zigeuner, zigeunerin.
• In the example corpus, gypsy often appears in combinations such as: the gypsy, gypsy king, gypsy rose.

Context around Gypsy

• Average sentence length in these examples: 25.9 words
• Position in the sentence: 7 start, 7 middle, 6 end
• Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

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Corpus analysis for Gypsy

• In this selection, "gypsy" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
• Around the word, convinced, music, little, king, jazz and soul stand out and add context to how "gypsy" is used.
• Recognizable usage signals include after the gypsy king scraped and a normal gypsy it takes. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
• By corpus frequency, "gypsy" sits close to words such as alejandro, antennas and blond, which helps place it inside the broader word index.