† vipseysn.
Obsolete.
= gipsies n.
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1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 715 Those famous waters which commonly are called Vipseys, rise out of the earth from many sources not continually, but every second yeere, and beeing growne unto a great bourn runne downe by the lower grounds into the sea.
1674 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 4)
1727 D. Defoe Tour Great Brit. III. i. 185 The Country People have a Notion that whenever those Gipsies, or, as some call 'em, Vipseys, break out, there will certainly ensue either Famine or Plague.
1778 Ann. Reg. 1777 ii. 146 Vipseys or gypseys in Yorkshire..mean a torrent which flows only now and then or once in a few years.
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