English
gipser
Gipser comes from French gibecière ‘a game pouch or game pocket’.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentgibecière‘a game pouch or game pocket’
- Englishearliest quotation 1710gipser
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presentgibecière‘a game pouch or game pocket’
- Englishearliest quotation 1710gipser
Earliest quotation: 1710, Thomas Rymer: “A Gipser of Gold, Garnisshed with Rubies and Perle,…”
Every English word from French gibecière
Today it means
noun A kind of pouch worn at the girdle.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French gibecière / gipser