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US
/ˈɹɑməni, ˈɹoʊməni/
]
NOUN
- the Indic language of the Gypsies
- a member of a people with dark skin and hair who speak Romany and who traditionally live by seasonal work and fortunetelling; they are believed to have originated in northern India but now are living on all continents (but mostly in Europe, North Africa, and North America)
ADJECTIVE
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of or relating to the Gypsies or their language or culture
Romani nomads
Romany folk songs
a Gypsy fortune-teller
How To Use Romany In A Sentence
- Borrow's life, for, soon after, when he first came among gypsy tents, and saw the long-haired woman with skin dark and swarthy like that of a toad, and a particularly evil expression, and when her husband threatened to baste the intruder with a ladle, the boy broke forth into what in Romany would be called a "gillie," or ditty, ending -- Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913
- The Court declined to confine the term to persons of Romany origin.
- I should ha 'begun the Romany rokkerpen with you, only you ain't got the Romany glime in your eyes. Aylwin
- It was a Romany pendant and it had `Good Fortune "on it in our language. THE BLACK OPAL
- I reckon my love of nature and of wild places started out with Romany.
- Sinfi's creed did not surprise me: the mixture of guile and simplicity in the Romany race is only understood by the few who know it thoroughly: the race whose profession it is to cheat by fortune-telling, to read the false 'dukkeripen' as being 'good enough for the Gorgios,' believe profoundly in nature's symbols; but her bearing did surprise me. Aylwin
- Schoolchildren spent a day in the life of a Romany traveller when a festival of caravans dropped in.
- Kek rya, -- mandy _never_ chored a kani an 'adre sixty beshes kenna' at mandy's been apre the drumyors, an 'sar dovo chirus mandy never dikked or shuned or jinned of a Romany chal's chorin yeck. The Gypsies
- The minority in Slovakia prefers the name Roma, meaning "man" in Romany dialects. MAIL CALL
- In college, Mr. Young earned extra money working at his father's restaurant, the Roumanian Inn and Romany Room, which was later renamed Paul Young's Restaurant. Restaurant owner, outlet mall executive