gipsies

1) The term gipsey race is found several times for streams in east Yorkshire, and ‘gipsey’ has been used as a general word there for intermittent springs.

It is on record from c.1198 and the OED has a sequence of references from that period. Derivations offered there and in Smith’s Place-Names of the East Riding differ fundamentally.

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