gip

noun, verb — 3 senses

gip

noun
1

A servant; a gyp.

  • The girls seldom passed her without her saying, “Move faster, you black gip!” at the same time giving them a blow with the cowskin over the head or shoulders, often drawing the blood.1846 [1845], Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, page 35:

gip

verb
1

To take out the entrails of (herrings).

2

Yorkshire To retch

  • Bi Gow, it stinks enuff to mek thee gip does that!
Derived terms
gipper

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