Dictionary

gip en · NOUN · etymology 1

Meanings

1. A servant; a gyp.
   • The girls seldom passed her without her saying, “Move faster, you black gip!” at the same time giving them a blow with the cowskin over the head or shoulders, often drawing the blood. 1846 [1845], Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, page 35:

Forms

gip en · VERB · etymology 1

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of gyp.
   alt of gyp

Forms

gip en · VERB · etymology 2

Meanings

1. To take out the entrails of (herrings).
2. (Yorkshire) To retch
   • Bi Gow, it stinks enuff to mek thee gip does that!

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Deriveds

gipper