It is, however, remarkable, that the Gipsy, though he lives in fields and woods, is, all the world over, far inferior to the American Indian as regards a knowledge of the properties of herbs or minerals.

One may pick the first fifty plants which he sees in the woods, and show them to the first Indian whom he meets, with the absolute certainty that the latter will give him a name for every one, and describe in detail their qualities and their use as remedies.

The Gipsy seldom has a name for anything of the kind.

The country people in America, and even the farmers' boys, have probably inherited by tradition much of this knowledge from the aborigines.
BARNEY, a mob or crowd, may be derived from the Gipsy _baro_, great or many, which sometimes takes the form of _barno_ or _barni_, and which suggests the Hindustani Bahrna "to increase, proceed, to gain, to be promoted;" and Bharna, "to fill, to satisfy, to be filled, &c."-- (Brice's "Hindustani and English Dictionary." London, Trubner & Co., 1864).
BEEBEE, which the author of the Slang Dictionary declares means a lady, and is "Anglo-Indian," is in general use among English Gipsies for aunt.
It is also a respectful form of address to any middle-aged woman, among friends.
CULL or CULLY, meaning a man or boy, in Old English cant, is certainly of Gipsy origin.

_Chulai_ signifies man in Spanish Gipsy (Borrow), and _Khulai_ a gentleman, according to Paspati; in Turkish Rommany--a distinction which the word _cully_ often preserves in England, even when used in a derogatory sense, as of a dupe.
JOMER, a sweetheart or female favourite, has probably some connection in derivation with choomer, a kiss, in Gipsy.
BLOKE, a common coarse word for a man, may be of Gipsy origin; since, as the author of the Slang Dictionary declares, it may be found in Hindustani, as Loke.