kipsy
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From kips (“plural of kip (lodging-house or sleep)”) + -y (“diminutive suffix”).[1]
Noun edit
kipsy (plural kipsies)
Verb edit
kipsy (third-person singular simple present kipsies, present participle kipsying, simple past and past participle kipsied)
- To board, to reside.
- 2007, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 155:
- “ […] It′s some kind of boarding-house that she kipsies in—”
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References edit
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
kipsy (plural kipsies)
Alternative forms edit
References edit
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary (as kypsey)