gippoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

An alteration of gypsy, which is in turn an alteration of Egyptian.

発音

• IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɪpəʊ/
• 韻: -ɪpəʊ

名詞

gippo (countable and uncountable, plural gippos or gippoes)

1. (British, offensive, slang) A Gypsy.
2. (British, offensive, slang, rare) An Egyptian.
   • 1977, Olivia Manning, chapter 1, in The Danger Tree:

     Every foreigner in Cairo’s piling into the trains[.] The gyppo porters are having a high old time at the station.

3. (British, military, slang, uncountable) Gravy.
   • 2006, George H. Coward, Coward's War:

     He had his “dinner” in his canteen and placed it on the ground to go and “scrounge” a chunk of bread to help “fill up”, and as soon as he turned his back a dog walked in at the door of the barn, where we were “in residence” as they say “higher up”, [only we “flew no flag”], and started lapping up some of the “gippo”, [gravy] of which the said dinner was composed [in fact 'twas more “gippo” than dinner that day, so who could blame a dog for being mistaken].

   • 2006, Mildred Joan Tulip, My experiences as a VAD nurse:

     They were always asking for ‘more gippo’ (gravy) which we got for them if we could.

4. Ellipsis of gyppo logger.
   • 1923, Edward B Mittelman, “The Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen: An Experiment in Industrial Relations”, in Journal of Political Economy‎, volume 31, number 3, page 316:

     But even where the company does its own logging, the size of the timber enables it to use a modified form of the contract system, somewhat analogous to the sweatshop system in other industries and sinisterly named by the I.W.W., the "gyppo" system.

派生語

• gyppo logger

派生した語

• →? Swedish: jippo (“spectacle, stunt”)
• →? Finnish: jippo (“trick, gimmick”)

参照

• (gypsy; Egyptian): Tony Thorne (2014) “gippo”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  […]: Bloomsbury