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cove – British-English colloquial term meaning a person or chap (from kova "that person") dick – detective (potentially from dik "look", "see" and by extension "watch") [3] gadjo (masc) or gadji (fem) – a non-Romani; nark – a police informer (from nāk "nose") pal – friend (from phral "brother")
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 March 2025. There is 1 pending revision awaiting review. Indo-Aryan ethnic group For other uses, see Romani (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Romanians or Roman people. Several terms redirect here. For other uses, see Gypsy (disambiguation). Ethnic group Romani people Romani flag created in ...
The English term gypsy or gipsy [16] is commonly used to indicate Romani people, [17] and use of the word gipsy in modern-day English is pervasive (and is a legal term under English law—see below), and some Romani organizations use it in their own organizational names, particularly in the United Kingdom.
Despite this new option, the Romani were forced into a marginal lifestyle and subjected to discrimination by the authorities and by many non-Romani. In 1596, 106 men and women were condemned to death at York for being Romani, and nine were executed. [23] Samuel Rid wrote two books about them in the early 17th century. [24]
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Romanian insults often involve the sexual behavior of men or women. Women are usually insulted by comparison to prostitutes. There is a rich vocabulary of insults involving prostitution in Romanian. Curvă is an insult meaning whore or prostitute, or, more generally, a sexually promiscuous woman.
Meanwhile, some women have tried to reclaim the word "spinster" as a positive one, writing books like Kate Bolick's Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own, or rebranding the term as Spinster Chic.
Caló (Gypsy or Romany) word for non-Gypsy (compare payo) gancho literally a "hook"; by extension, anything that gets to you, that "hooks" you garra literally "claws"; guts, force garrotín song adopted from northern Spain (Asturias) gesto tapping the face of the guitar with the second and/or third finger while playing granaína