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語源

gypsy +‎ -ism

名詞

gypsyism (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 gypsyisms)

1. The state of being a gypsy.
2. (offensive, ethnic slur) The practices or habits ascribed to gypsies, such as deception, cheating, and flattery.
3. A word or phrase used by gypsies.
   • 2016, César Domínguez, ‎Anxo Abuín González, ‎Ellen Sapega, A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula (page 35)

     The word is a gypsyism, one of many that we find in Spanish.

4. The support of gypsies or gypsy beliefs, culture etc.

使用する際の注意点

See notes at gypsy and Gypsy.

参考

• antigypsyism

参照

• “gypsyism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.