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to deceive
2 realizations
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | English | |
Lexeme | Gipsy | |
Meaning 1 | gypsy (male and female) | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | (obsolete) a person who acts in a disreputable, unscrupulous, or deceptive manner | 1616 O, Pharoahs foot, haue I found you? Come, draw, to your tooles: draw, gipsie, or Ile threshyou. |
Reference | OED | |
Comment | Also a contemptuous term for: a woman, considered as deceitful, thoughtless, orfickle. In later use Scottish and English regional, and sometimes used playfully as aterm of endearment |
ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
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Type | Derivation | |
Language | Russian | |
Lexeme 1 | cygan | |
Lexeme 2 | cyganit' | |
Meaning 1 | a nomadic tribe of indian origin | Цыганы шумною толпой по Бессарабии кочуют. (Пушкин) Gypsies in a noisy crowd roam about in Bessarabia. (Pushkin) |
Meaning 2 | to deceive | |
Reference | ||
Comment | Cf. Dal': Цыганить лошадьми, барышничать, менять, покупать и продавать не без плутовства 'to exchange, barter horses; to buy and sell horses with some roguery'. |