gip
English
editEtymology 1
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editgip (third-person singular simple present gips, present participle gipping, simple past and past participle gipped)
- Alternative form of gyp
Noun
editgip (plural gips)
- A servant; a gyp.
- 1846 [1845], Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, page 35:
- The girls seldom passed her without her saying, “Move faster, you black gip!” at the same time giving them a blow with the cowskin over the head or shoulders, often drawing the blood.
Etymology 2
editVerb
editgip (third-person singular simple present gips, present participle gipping, simple past and past participle gipped)
- To take out the entrails of (herrings).
- (Yorkshire) to retch
- Bi Gow, it stinks enuff to mek thee gip does that!
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Noun
editgip m (plural gips)
- plaster (substance)
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