gypsify

English

Etymology 1

From gypsum +‎ -ify.

Verb

gypsify (third-person singular simple present gypsifies, present participle gypsifying, simple past and past participle gypsified)

1. (geology) To diagenetically alter to gypsum.

Related terms

• gypsification

Etymology 2

From gypsy +‎ -ify.

Verb

gypsify (third-person singular simple present gypsifies, present participle gypsifying, simple past and past participle gypsified)

1. (sometimes offensive) To become or make gypsy.
   • 2013, Jürg Laederach, Whole of Life:

     Now, his instrument was not hard to identify as a concert grand, by its enormously hard wood block, by the astounding coldness of tone, by the gypsifying strings which were fatter than a female jurisprudent, fatter than a woman with a law degree;

Alternative forms

• gypsyfy