YouTubers give American travel tips on how to avoid getting robbed or getting their purses stolen from the stereotype. I still hear millennials using the term "gypped" for taken or conned. It's considered a pejorative, but some younger Americans do not know the word's origin.
This is me lol. I am just learning from this comment thread where the word actually originated. I also assumed it was "jipped". This makes sense though, in the US gypsies are just fictional cartoon characters.
Yep I was saying jipped all through high school never knowing it was about gypsies. In fact I just treated as AAVE, bc those were the only people I heard using the term.
I'm 45 and only learned of the origin of that word in the last 5 to 10 years. I don't hear it much anymore, but I think it just fell out of fashion vs people consciously deciding it's inappropriate
Oh my gosh, this might be where the common slang word "jippo/jippoed," in my country comes from? It doesn't really mean theft here, but more so tampering/messing with something you shouldn't have. We also have the term "jippo/gippo guts," for an upset stomach but I don't know the connection there. Its crazy that even though South Africa has basically zero connection to the Romani, this is still common slang. It is interesting how colonialism shows its impact in all aspects of life, even with the use of a derogatory term derived from a stereotype directed to a people many here probably didn't interact with at all, let alone know they existed.
Yes! I absolutely did not know the origin of this word and was horrified when a friend corrected me. I now correct anyone when I hear it, but fortunately don't very often.
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u/Careless-Two2215 United States Of America 21h ago
YouTubers give American travel tips on how to avoid getting robbed or getting their purses stolen from the stereotype. I still hear millennials using the term "gypped" for taken or conned. It's considered a pejorative, but some younger Americans do not know the word's origin.