GYPSY


Meaning of GYPSY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

caravan

It's all rather like an old-fashioned gypsy caravan .

Local councils would also have greater powers of eviction and be free of their legal duty to provide gypsy caravan sites.

Joanne described the gypsy caravan perfectly, even though she had never seen one, even in a picture.

moth

But something was different about the way the gypsy moths died.

Worse, the Paris green was killing the trees as well as the gypsy moths .

In those optimistic times, the commission thought that if they just kept at it they could eventually eradicate the gypsy moth .

AGMs look very much like our own gypsy moths , albeit a bit larger.

These days, gypsy moth experts are more interested in the various ways the moths control themselves.

They did not know it, but the gypsy moth was not being vanquished by their appropriations.

With a perversity that the pest has become known for, the gypsy moth came roaring back a couple of years later.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Fred is a Romany gypsy and made the caravan himself.

I shone in the reflection of her green-eyed, black-haired, gypsy beauty.

Suddenly a fat gypsy stood up.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.