kipsy

noun, verb — 3 senses

kipsy

noun

Etymology From kips (“plural of kip (lodging-house or sleep)”) + -y (“diminutive suffix”).

1

Australia A house or shelter.

kipsy

verb

Etymology From kips (“plural of kip (lodging-house or sleep)”) + -y (“diminutive suffix”).

1

To board, to reside.

“[…]It′s some kind of boarding-house that she kipsies in—”2007, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 155:

kipsy

noun

1

Obsolete, Slang A basket.

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