antigypsy

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ gypsy.

Adjective

antigypsy (comparative more antigypsy, superlative most antigypsy)

1. Opposing or countering gypsies; practicing or exhibiting antigypsyism.
   • 2000, Carroll B. Johnson, Cervantes and the material world, page 93:

     This violently antigypsy diatribe, which brings together all the racial and ethnic stereotypes held in sixteenth-century Spain, was duly withdrawn from the elementary school reader...

   • 2004, Herman Roodenburg, Social Control in Europe: 1500-1800, page 216:

     There is also evidence of numerous local antigypsy campaigns by police, often acting on their own initiative and not in response to complaints or orders from above.

Usage notes

See the notes about gypsy and Gypsy.

Translations

opposing or countering gypsies

• Portuguese: anticiganos, anticigano