Pertaining to, or suitable for, gypsies.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. One of a vagabond race, whose tribes, coming originally from India, entered Europe in 14th or 15th centry, and are now scattered over Turkey, Russia, Hungary, Spain, England, etc., living by theft, fortune telling, horsejockeying, tinkering, etc. Cf. Bohemian, Romany.
2. The language used by the gypsies.
3. A dark-complexioned person.
2. The state of a gypsy.
Traveler Roget’s Thesaurus §268
N. traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant, passenger, commuter, tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, alpine club, peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler, bird of passage, gadabout, gadling, vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling, loafer, tramp, tramper, vagabond, nomad, bohemian, gypsy, arab, wandering jew, hadji, pilgrim, palmer, peripatetic, somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee, beach comber, booly, globegirdler, globetrotter, vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker, noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman, trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro, runner, courier, mercury, iris, ariel, comet, pedestrian, walker, foot passenger, cyclist, wheelman, rider, horseman, equestrian, cavalier, jockey, roughrider, trainer, breaker, driver, coachman, whip, jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy, carter, wagoner, drayman, cabman, cabdriver, voiturier, vetturino, condottiere, engine driver, stoker, fireman, guard, chauffeur, conductor, engineer, gharry-wallah, gari-wala, hackman, syce, truckman
Phr. on the road
Deceiver Roget’s Thesaurus §548
N. deceiver &c (deceive ), dissembler, hypocrite, sophist, pharisee, jesuit, mawworm, pecksniff, joseph surface, tartufe, janus, serpent, snake in the grass, cockatrice, judas, wolf in sheep's clothing, jilt, shuffler|, stool pigeon, liar &c (lie ), story-teller, perjurer, false witness, menteur a triple etage, scapin, bunko steerer*, carpetbagger*, capper*, faker, fraud, four flusher*, horse coper, ringer*, spieler, straw bidder, imposter, pretender, soi-disant, humbug, adventurer, cagliostro, fernam mendez pinto, ass in lion's skin, actor, quack, charlatan, mountebank, saltimbanco, saltimbanque, empiric, quacksalver, medicaster, rosicrucian, gypsy, man of straw, conjuror, juggler, trickster, prestidigitator, jockey, crimp, decoy, decoy duck, rogue, knave, cheat, swindler, jobber
Phr. "saint abroad and a devil at home"
Humorist Roget’s Thesaurus §844
N. humorist, wag, wit, reparteeist, epigrammatist, punster, bel esprit, life of the party, wit-snapper, wit- cracker, wit-worm, joker, jester, joe miller|, drole de corps, gaillard, spark, bon diable, practical joker, buffoon, farceur, merry-andrew, mime, tumbler, acrobat, mountebank, charlatan, posturemaster, harlequin, punch, pulcinella, scaramouch, clown, wearer of the cap and bells, wearer of the motley, motley fool, pantaloon, gypsy, jack-pudding, jack in the green, jack a dandy, wiseacre, wise guy, smartass, fool, zany, madcap, pickle-herring, witling, caricaturist, grimacier, persifleur, 2, discriminative affections
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