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Roma vs Gyp - What's the difference?

roma | gyp |

As nouns the difference between roma and gyp

is that roma is roman while gyp is (pejorative|sometimes|offensive) a cheat or swindle; a rip-off or gyp can be a college servant or gyp can be gypsophila or gyp can be pain or discomfort.

As an adjective roma

is roman.

As a verb gyp is

(pejorative|sometimes|offensive) to cheat or swindle someone of something inappropriately.

roma

English

Etymology 1

Related to Rom, from (etyl) rom, probably ultimately from (etyl) .See e.g. Matras, Romani, A linguistic Introduction'' (2005) The names of the ''Lom'' and ''Dom are related. The other major categories of words for the Roma are cognates of Gypsy'' (words related to ''Egypt'') and cognates of ''tzigane (words derived from Greek); see those entries for more information.

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A nomadic people with origins in India, the Romani.
  • A subgroup of the Romani people found primary in Eastern Europe.
  • A variety of the Romani language (or occasionally) the Romani macrolanguage.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A Romani; a member of the Roma/Romani people.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Romani: of or pertaining to the Roma people.

    • See also

    * Rom *

    References

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) and (etyl) .

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A variety of tomato.
  • Any of a number of places, including a city in Texas and a city in Queensland.
  • of English-speakers.

    • Etymology 3

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • An Austronesian language of Indonesia.

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    Anagrams

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    gyp

    English

    Etymology 1

    Probably from the term

    Alternative forms

    * gip, jip (eye dialect spellings)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pejorative, sometimes, offensive) A cheat or swindle; a rip-off.
    • Why do we have to buy this new edition of the textbook when there’s almost no difference between it and the previous one? What a gyp !
    Usage notes
    Because this term is often considered to derive from the problematic exonymic term Gypsy'' and represent a racist stereotype of the Romani, it may be offensive. See the usage note about ''gypsy .

    Verb

    (gypp)
  • (pejorative, sometimes, offensive) To cheat or swindle someone of something inappropriately.
    • The cab driver gypped me out of ten bucks by taking the longer route.
    You better watch out; they'll try to gyp you if you don't know what you're doing.
    Usage notes
    See the notes about the noun, above.

    See also

    * jew down * welsh

    References

    * Gyp: Thieve, World Wide Words * Etymology of "Gyp" / "gypped", Vocaboly.com

    Etymology 2

    Perhaps the same as Etymology 1.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A college servant.
  • The room in which such college servants work.
  • A small kitchen for use by college students.

    • Etymology 3

    Shortening.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Gypsophila.

    • Etymology 4

    Perhaps from gee up .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Pain or discomfort.
    • ''My back's giving me gyp .