558 Miklosich. 



bancli: handy, ur cripple, a sixpeuce, so called from 

 this coiu being generally bent or crooked •, old term for flinisy 

 ur bad cloth, temp. Q. Elizabeth. Hotten 70.— Vgl. deutsch 

 hingo (seil, lovo) Pfennig, kruinmes Geld, wahrscheinlich weil 

 sonst die Pfennigstücke kriinim gebogen waren Liebich ^'l'^. 



hazar: bazaar, a shop or counter. Gipsy und Ilindoo, a 

 market. Hotten 71. — Das Wort ist nicht zig. 



blök: bloak, or blöke, a man. Gipsy and Hindoo, loke. 

 Hotten 77. — Das Wort ist nicht zig. 



bos: hosh, a fiddle. bush-faker, a violin-player. Terms 

 only used by the lower Orders. Hotten 82. — Griech. basdva 

 schreie, belle, singe; basavdva spiele ein Instrument; basavdi 

 Musik. Ungr. busavel er spielt, geigt. Engl. 6oa- geigen, Geige; 

 bösero Geiger. Span, bajani Guitarre. 



&öö'; bosh^ stupidity, foolishness. bosh, rubbish, nonsense, 

 offal. Gipsy and Persian. Hotten 7. — Das Wort ist nicht zig. 



ciz: cheese, or ckeesy, a first-rate or very good article. 

 cheese, thing or article, ,that 's the cheese^ or thiug. Gipsy and 

 Hindoo. Hotten 7. — Das Wort ist nicht zig. 



dadi: daddy, nursery term for father. dade, or dadi, a 

 father. Gipsy. Dad in Welsh, also signifies a father. Hotten 7. 



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d r u m : drum, as applied to the road, is doubtless from 

 the Wallachian Gipsy word ,drumri^, derived from the Greek 

 cc:[j.o:. Hütten 126. — Engl. drom. Griech. drom. Rumun. drum. 

 Deutsch trom. Skand. dromm. Span, drun, drune. Aus dem 

 Griech. cpi\i.oz. Pott 2. 318. 



dzib: jibb, the tongue. Gipsy and Hindoo. (Tramps' 

 term.) Hotten 162. tschib , or jibb 8.— Engl, dzib, Sib, Uv. 

 Griech. c/6. Ungr. c/7/. Span. c/uj;e. Mit diesem Worte wird (jri6- 

 berish und chive mit Unrecht in Verbindung gebracht, gibberish, 

 rapid and unmeaning speech. gibberish, the laiiguage of Gipsies, 

 synonymous with slang. Gipsy. Hotten 7. 142. Vgl. Ascoli 134. 

 chiva, or chivey, a shout, a halloo or cheer; loudtongued. — 

 From chevy-chase, a boy's game, in which the word chevy is 

 bawled aloud; or from the Gipsy. Hotten 99. chive, the tongue. 

 Gipsy. 7. 



gad: gad, a female scold, a woman who traraps over 

 the country with a beggar or hawker. gad, or gadsi, a wife. 



