Gypsify

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To diagenetically alter to gypsum.
  2. 2
    To become or make gypsy. offensive, sometimes

    "Now, his instrument was not hard to identify as a concert grand, by its enormously hard wood block, by the astounding coldness of tone, by the gypsifying strings which were fatter than a female jurisprudent, fatter than a woman with a law degree;"

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"Now, his instrument was not hard to identify as a concert grand, by its enormously hard wood block, by the astounding coldness of tone, by the gypsifying strings which were fatter than a female jurisprudent, fatter than a woman with a law degree;"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From gypsum + -ify.

Etymology 2

From gypsy + -ify.

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