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Word: gyp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1885-1885
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...make our beds, and who is supposed to sweep snd dust our rooms, has ever here at Harvard been honored by the sobriaquet of "goodey," a contraction of good wife, some say. At some colleges she is called a "sweep," at Cambridge, Eng., a "bed-maker," at Oxford, a "gyp," and at Bowdoin we believe, she goes by the name of "end-woman," because the entries are in the ends of the buildings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Slang. | 6/18/1885 | See Source »

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