▪ I. † gippo1 Obs.
Also 7 gippoe, jippo.
[a. F. jup(p)eau (obs.), earlier jupel gipel.]
1. A short tunic, cassock, or jacket worn by men, later also by women.
| 1617 Moryson Itin. iii. iv. i. 170 He wore a loose gippoe of blacke veluet, sparingly adorned with gold lace. 1650 A. B. Mutat. Polemo 10 Horsemans Frock, or Serving⁓mans Livery..or a Pulpit-thumping Presbyters Jippo. 1654 Whitelocke Jrnl. Swed. Emb. (1772) II. 181 Her habit was blacke silke stuffe for her coates, and over them a blacke velvet jippo, such as men use to weare. 1679 Marr. Charles II, 6 Her Jippo was edged like her Gown. |
2. transf. A scullion, varlet. Cf. gyp.
| 1651 Randolph, etc. Hey for Honesty iv. i, The veriest Gippo in the house will not drink a degree under Muscadine. Ibid. v, For a rib of beef, Though it smelt of every Gippo's scabby fingers, May any Scullion be chief Cook of heaven. |
▪ II. gippo2 slang (chiefly Services').
(ˈdʒɪpəʊ)
Also gippy, gyp(p)o, gypoo.
[Var. jipper, jippo.]
(See quots.)
| 1914 Times 23 Dec. 3/2 You take your mess-tin, [and] empty out..the greasy ‘gyppo’ (that means stew). 1916 Daily Mail 1 Nov. 4/4 ‘Gipoo’ (gravy or grease). 1925 Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 105 Gippo (also gypo), gravy. Bacon fat. Butter. Any greasy sauce.—e.g., ‘Is there any Gippo?’ |