kipsy

English

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Etymology

From kips (“plural of kip (lodging-house or sleep)”) +‎ -y (“diminutive suffix”).[1]

Noun

kipsy (plural kipsies)

  1. (Australia) A house or shelter.[1]

Verb

kipsy (third-person singular simple present kipsies, present participle kipsying, simple past and past participle kipsied)

  1. 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—”

References
  1. “kipsy”, entry in 1989, Joan Hughes, Australian Words and Their Origins, page 293.

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