gypsify

English

Etymology 1

From gypsum + -ify.

Verb

gypsify (third-person singular simple present gypsifies, present participle gypsifying, simple past and past participle gypsified)

  1. (geology) To diagenetically alter to gypsum.

Etymology 2

From gypsy + -ify.

Verb

gypsify (third-person singular simple present gypsifies, present participle gypsifying, simple past and past participle gypsified)

  1. (sometimes offensive) To become or make gypsy.
    • 2013, Jürg Laederach, Whole of Life:
      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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