gipsying

English

Verb

gipsying

1. present participle and gerund of gipsy
   • L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

     Meantime she sang: her song was — “In the days when we went gipsying, / A long time ago." I had often heard the song before, and always with lively delight; for Bessie had a sweet voice, — at least, I thought so.

Noun

gipsying (plural gipsyings)

1. (archaic) An excursion into the countryside.
   • 1871, Peter Bayne, The Life and Letters of Hugh Miller:

     His friend Finlay had returned from the West Indies, and, making a tour through England and Ireland, bent his steps to the North to revisit the scenes of his youthful gipsyings with Miller.