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romany
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun romany has 2 senses
- romany(n = noun.person) bohemian, gipsy, gypsy, roma, romani, rommany - a member of a people with dark skin and hair who speak Romany and who traditionally live by seasonal work and fortunetelling; they are believed to have originated in northern India but now are living on all continents (but mostly in Europe, North Africa, and North America); Array is a kind of indian
- romany(n = noun.communication) gypsy - the Indic language of the Gypsies; Array is a kind of sanskrit, sanskritic language
has particulars: gitana, gitano
Adjective romany has 1 sense
- romany(a = adj.pert) romani - of or relating to the Gypsies or their language or culture; "Romani nomads"; "Romany folk songs"; "a Gypsy fortune-teller"
CIDE DICTIONARY
romany, n. [Gypsy romano, romani, adj., gypsy; cf. rom husband.].
- A gypsy. [1913 Webster]
- The language spoken among themselves by the gypsies. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
romany, n. & adj.
--n. (pl. -ies)
1 a Gypsy.
2 the Indo-European language of the Gypsies.
--adj.
1 of or concerning Gypsies.
2 of the Romany language.
--n. (pl. -ies)
1 a Gypsy.
2 the Indo-European language of the Gypsies.
--adj.
1 of or concerning Gypsies.
2 of the Romany language.
Etymology
Romany Romani fem. and pl. of Romano (adj.) (ROM)
ROGET THESAURUS
romany
Neologism
N neology, neologism, newfangled expression, nonce expression, back-formation, caconym, barbarism, archaism, black letter, monkish Latin, corruption, missaying, malapropism, antiphrasis, pun, paranomasia, play upon words, word play, double- entendre, palindrome, paragram, anagram, clinch, abuse of language, abuse of terms, dialect, brogue, idiom, accent, patois, provincialism, regionalism, localism, broken English, lingua franca, Anglicism, Briticism, Gallicism, Scotticism, Hibernicism, Americanism, Gypsy lingo, Romany, pidgin, pidgin English, pigeon English, Volapuk, Chinook, Esperanto, Hindustani, kitchen Kaffir, dog Latin, macaronics, gibberish, confusion of tongues, Babel, babu English, chi-chi, figure of speech, byword, colloquialism, informal speech, informal language, substandard language, vernacular, vulgar language, obscene language, obscenity, vulgarity, jargon, technical terms, technicality, lingo, slang, cant, argot, St. Gile's Greek, thieves' Latin, peddler's French, flash tongue, Billingsgate, Wall Street slang, pseudology, pseudonym, Mr, So-and-so, wha d'ye call 'em, whatchacallim, what's his name, thingummy, thingumbob, je ne sais quoi, neologist, coiner of words, neologic, neological, archaic, obsolete, colloquial, Anglice.
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