gyp
n. 校工, 骗, 骗子 v. 骗, 欺诈 a. 不诚实的, 欺骗的
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A cheat or swindle; a rip-off.
贬义 冒犯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!
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Synonym of gypsy (“contra dance step”).
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A domestic servant, generally male, who would attend upon (usually several) students, brushing their clothes, carrying parcels, waiting at parties and other tasks; generally equivalent to a scout in the historical sense at Oxford University or a skip at Trinity College, Dublin.
历史Had he acted discourteously to his bedmaker or his gyp, he would have minded just as much … .
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The room in which such college servants work.
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A small kitchen for use by college students.
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Gypsophila.
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Pain or discomfort.
My back's giving me gyp.
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To cheat or swindle.
贬义 冒犯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.
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Perhaps from the term gypsy (“Roma”), due to a stereotype of the Roma as swindlers. Compare jew (“defraud”), from Jew, and welsh (“swindle by defaulting on a debt”), from Welsh. Could also be derived from dupe, with the same pattern (yod coalescence) as idiot becomes eejit in Scottish English.
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