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Gadgie to mean "gypsy"?
editThe pejorative use of the term in Scotland is a minority one (possibly more common in some dialects, e.g. Dundonian) and never in my puff have I heard it used specifically to mean traveller or gypsy. In the main its simply a neutral term for a man. See DSL. Mutt Lunker (talk) 21:37, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
Is gadjo the most accepted spelling of gorjer/gadjie/gorjo in English? Agreed with the above that I've never heard it used to mean a Gypsy, even as a term of insult, it's always been a fairly-neutral "Not-a-gypsy" - Akin to "gentile" (Which is the translation used in The Dialect Of The English Gypsies by B.C. Smart and H.T Crofton, with translation by Wester Boswell) - The same book lists it specifically to mean "stranger, Englishman, alien, anyone who is not a gypsy". Hachiwichi (talk) 18:56, 7 February 2019 (UTC)Hachiwichi