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The English Gipsies and Their Language

CHAPTER VI
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It was not necessary for the author of the Slang Dictionary to go to the banks of the Danube for the origin of a word which is in the mouths of all English Gipsies, and which was brought to England by their ancestors.

A sovereign, a pound, in Gipsy, is a _bar_.
A GORGER, meaning a gentleman, or well-dressed man, and in theatrical parlance, a manager, is derived by the author of the Slang Dictionary--absurdly enough, it must be confessed--from "gorgeous,"-- a word with which it has no more in common than with gouges or chisels.

A gorger or gorgio--the two are often confounded--is the common Gipsy word for one who is not Gipsy, and very often means with them a _rye_ or gentleman, and indeed any man whatever.

Actors sometimes call a fellow- performer a _cully-gorger_.
DICK, an English slang word for sight, or seeing, is purely Gipsy in its origin, and in common use by Rommanis over all the world.
DOOK, to tell fortunes, and DOOKING, fortune-telling, are derived by the writer last cited, correctly enough, from the Gipsy _dukkerin_,--a fact which I specify, since it is one of the very rare instances in which he has not blundered when commenting on Rommany words, or other persons' works.
Mr Borrow has told us that a TANNER or sixpence, sometimes called a Downer, owes its pseudonym to the Gipsy word _tawno_ or _tano_, meaning "little"-- the sixpence being the little coin as compared with a shilling.
DRUM or DROM, is the common English Gipsy word for a road.

In English slang it is applied, not only to highways, but also to houses.
If the word GIBBERISH was, as has been asserted, first applied to the language of the Gipsies, it may have been derived either from "Gip," the nickname for Gipsy, with _ish_ or _rish_ appended as in Engl-_ish_, I- _rish_, or from the Rommany word _Jib_ signifying a language.
KEN, a low term for a house, is possibly of Gipsy origin.


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