Mr Hotten says it is from the Gipsy _distarabin_, but there is no such word beginning with _dis_, in the English Rommany dialect.

In German Gipsy a prison is called _stillapenn_.
TINY or TEENY has been derived from the Gipsy _tano_, meaning "little." TOFFER, a woman who is well dressed in new clean clothes, probably gets the name from the Gipsy _tove_, to wash (German Gipsy _Tovava_).

She is, so to speak, freshly washed.

To this class belong Toff, a dandy; _Tofficky_, dressy or gay, and _Toft_, a dandy or swell.
TOOL as applied to stealing, picking pockets, and burglary, is, like _tool_, to drive with the reins; derived beyond doubt from the Gipsy word _tool_, to take or hold.

In all the Continental Rommany dialects it is _Tulliwawa_.
PUNCH, it is generally thought, is Anglo-Indian, derived directly from the Hindustani _Pantch_ or five, from the five ingredients which enter into its composition, but it may have partially got its name from some sporting Gipsy in whose language the word for _five_ is the same as in Sanskrit.