obs. var. of or error for GIPSIES.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., 715. Those famous waters which commonly are called Vipseys, rise out of the earth from many sources not continually, but every second yeere, and beeing growne unto a great bourne runne downe by the lower grounds into the sea.
1674. Blount, Glossogr. (ed. 4).
1727. [see GIPSIES].
1777. Ann. Reg., II. 146. Vipseys or gypseys in Yorkshire … means a torrent which flows only now and then or once in a few years.
