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English
Etymology 1
From kips (“plural of kip (lodging-house or sleep)”) + -y (“diminutive suffix”).[1]
Noun
kipsy (plural kipsies)
- (Australia) A house or shelter.[1]
Verb
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—”
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “kipsy”, entry in 1989, Joan Hughes, Australian Words and Their Origins, page 293.
Etymology 2
Noun
kipsy (plural kipsies)
- (obsolete, slang) A basket.
References
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary (as kypsey)
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