Meanings
plural Romanichals · alternative Romnichal · alternative Rumnichal
- A member of a Romani people found in the United Kingdom.
"We're just going to fade away," a Romanichal man told me at the Barnet Horse Fair, as recently as 1993. "It's all going to go."
2008 September 15, Louise Doughty, “History repeating”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Mar 20221 more example
My genes would best be described as a melting pot – my mother is part Bulgarian Roma, part Romanichal (English Romany), and my dad is part Romanichal, part Irish Traveller – thus, it was hardly surprising when I was born a blue-eyed milk bottle.
2013 October 25, Filip Borev, “I was a pale Roma baby – it's always been a family joke that I was stolen”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2022
Origin
- AngloromaniRomani
- Romanićalado
- Angloromanichal
- AngloromaniRomanicha
- EnglishRomanichal
Borrowed from Angloromani Romanichal.
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Cite this entry
Romanichal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Romanichal
“Romanichal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Romanichal. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Romanichal,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Romanichal.
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