gypsify
English
Verb
gypsify (third-person singular simple present gypsifies, present participle gypsifying, simple past and past participle gypsified)
- (geology) To diagenetically alter to gypsum.
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Verb
gypsify (third-person singular simple present gypsifies, present participle gypsifying, simple past and past participle gypsified)
- (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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