Definition of "gipsying" [gipsying]

• The Gipsy mode of life or conduct; the act of consorting with or living like Gipsies. (noun)
• The act of playing Gipsy, or making holiday in the woods and fields; picnicking. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Despite her encouragement he gave no fuller account of the "gipsying" than, "Why -- uh -- we just tramped down," till Russian-Jewish Yilyena rolled her ebony eyes at him and insisted, "Yez, you mus 'tale us about it.""
• "This kind of gipsying expedition to the sea in summer would hardly suit the form of European, or at least British civilisation; but we do not see why, in the one continent more than in the other, one's country lodgings should be required to resemble a town-house."
• "Enter the single-minded Dick, whose only fault at the gipsying, or picnic, had been that of loving Fancy too exclusively, and depriving himself of the innocent pleasure the gathering might have afforded him, by sighing regretfully at her absence, — who had danced with the rival in sheer despair of ever being able to get through that stale, flat, and unprofitable afternoon in any other way; but this she would not believe."