Romani → to steal 1 realization Unique
ACCEPTED Realization 1
type Derivation
language English
lexeme 1 Gipsy
lexeme 2 gipsy away
meaning 1 Gipsy
direction →
meaning 2 (obsolete, rare) to steal; to pilfer or filch

1696
Sir To. Cousin, give him some of the Broad Pieces thou hast for a Taste.
Il. Odsme! they're all Gipsied away: My Pocket has been gutted already.
P. A. Motteux, Love's a Jest iv. 48

1886
Besides gipsying away a good many lines, he quietly conveyed Macaulay's notes, totidem verbis, into his manuscript.
F. H. Doyle, Reminiscences 98
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