Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. Egyptian.

1918		Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 Sept. 5/1: He knows as much about botany as a Gyppo donk does about a holiday, but he was positive as a pickaxe, that the hyssop is a little bushy plant which grows among ruins.
1932		(con. WWI) L. Mann Flesh in Armour 80: Gray had a shallow gash [...] which Johnny Wright had bound up with a piece of dressing. ‘Like a gippo woman,’ yelled Albie.
1938		Townsville Daily Bull. (Qld) 20 Jan. 2/5: Ask Harry Hawkins if he would like to be in the Red Lion [...] in Cairo, having a couple of Gyppo beers.
1945		J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 154: In memory of Egypt, we next sing ‘My Little Gyppo Bint you’re Kwise Kateer’.
1947		D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 30: Full of Levantines and pashas and Gippo business men.

2. pertaining to a gypsy or gypsy culture.

1930		G. Milburn ‘The Timber-Beast’s Lament’ in Hobo’s Hornbook 115: For I’ve blowed the rest on skid-roads / Of a hundred gyppo towns.
1955		D. Niland Shiralee 145: The boss who doesn’t stand over a man like a gyppo taskmaster gets more out of me.
1973		T. Lewis Billy Rags [ebook] The hair; black, jet black, a bit gyppo, especially with the style, too-long Tony Curtis, greased inches thick.
2000		N. Griffiths Grits 99: Some-a em crowdin in-a doorwey like [...] ese fuckin gyppo cunts oo live yer.
2012		(con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] [He] had been disturbed by that bloody gyppo howling.
2017		Guardian 13 Feb. 🌐 Some people are running gyppo hotels out of multiple units in, or even whole, apartment buildings.
2018		I. Welsh Dead Man’s Trousers [33]: [T]he sentimental snowdropping gyppo cunt.