kipsy
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From kips (“plural of kip (lodging-house or sleep)”) + -y (“diminutive suffix”).[1]
Noun
kipsy (plural kipsies)
Verb
kipsy (third-person singular simple present kipsies, present participle kipsying, simple past and past participle kipsied)
- To board, to reside.
- 2007, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 155,
- “ […] It′s some kind of boarding-house that she kipsies in—”
- 2007, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 155,