kipsy

K5I1P3S1Y4

noun

A house or shelter.

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Meanings

kipsy1

nounkipsy (plural kipsies)

plural kipsies

  1. AustraliaA house or shelter.
verbkipsy (third-person singular simple present kipsies, present participle kipsying, simple past and past participle kipsied)

present singular third person kipsies · participle present kipsying · participle past kipsied · past kipsied · alternative kipsie

  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

kipsy2

nounkipsy (plural kipsies)

plural kipsies · alternative kibsey

  1. obsoleteslangA basket.

Origin

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

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

spikypisky
Cite this entry
APA

kipsy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kipsy

MLA

“kipsy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kipsy. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “kipsy,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kipsy.

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