Dictionary

antigypsy en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + gypsy.

Meanings

1. Opposing or countering gypsies; practicing or exhibiting antigypsyism.
   • This violently antigypsy diatribe, which brings together all the racial and ethnic stereotypes held in sixteenth-century Spain, was duly withdrawn from the elementary school reader... 2000, Carroll B. Johnson, Cervantes and the material world, page 93:
   • There is also evidence of numerous local antigypsy campaigns by police, often acting on their own initiative and not in response to complaints or orders from above. 2004, Herman Roodenburg, Social Control in Europe: 1500-1800, page 216:

Forms

Translations (2)

pt anticigano (opposing or countering gypsies) · pt anticiganos (opposing or countering gypsies)