English

Alternative forms

• kipsie

Noun

kipsy ‎(plural kipsies)

1. (Australia) A house or shelter.^[1]

Verb

kipsy ‎(third-person singular simple present kipsies, present participle kipsying, simple past and past participle kipsied)

1. To board, to reside.
   • 2007, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 155,

     “ […] It′s some kind of boarding-house that she kipsies in—”

Anagrams

• spiky

References

1. 1 2 “kipsy”, entry in 1989, Joan Hughes, Australian Words and Their Origins, page 293.