| 释义 |
gipsyfy, v.|ˈdʒɪpsɪfaɪ|
Also gipsify.
[f. gipsy n. + -fy.]
trans. To make gipsy-like in appearance or character. Also (rarely) intr. To become a gipsy. Hence ˈgipsyfied ppl. a.
1623Middleton More Dissemb. Besides Wom. iv. i, Which hoping you'll observe, to try thee With rusty Bacon thus I gipsifie thee. a1627Middleton & Rowley Sp. Gipsy ii. ii, Soto. Come then, wee'l be Gipsified. San. And tipsified too. 1873Leland Eng. Gipsies i. 4 He may be, of his kind, a quadroon or octoroon, or he may have ‘gipsified’ by marrying a Gipsy wife. 1882T. Mozley Remin. II. lxxix. 68 [She was] very gipsyfied in her manner and style. 1884Tennyson Becket iv. ii, I will hide my face, Blacken and gipsyfy it; none shall know me. |