I've always seen it spelled "gypped" in the US. And the meaning, in the US, is that a minor swindle has occurred, as when the "silver" earrings you were sold turn your ears green.

Dec 4, 2014 · 0 I was brought up near York & have heard "Gype " meaning a bit of a slob/dodgey character. "Its gypee" means cheap/nasty looking & "I've been gyped" means done out …

Closed 11 years ago. It has only been recently that I have even been aware of the connection between "gypped" and "Gypsy". Perhaps because I've always seen it spelled with a "J", I had …

Generally, subject to (subject in this case is an adjective) is most commonly used in the following ways: having a tendency for something This road is subject to flooding. conditional upon Your …

I am on it in your first example sounds like a shortened version of I’m on the case, a colloquial way of saying that the speaker is dealing with it. In the context of some kind of dispute, as in …

Nov 16, 2019 · The standard form of the verb "advocate" is transitive, meaning "endorse" or "argue for," as in " The teacher advocated a new educational technique ", which was accepted …

Oct 5, 2021 · A compromise outside confines of plain-text is to combine both, " (/s)", but with the parentheses shrunk slightly; this would be only marginally longer than "/s" (but shorter than " …

Apr 5, 2020 · Onboard the ship is non-standard usage - it is usually written as two words. On-board or onboard can be used as an adjective to describe equipment that is installed in a ship …

Jul 18, 2020 · I can't spot this meaning on the OED, but chanced upon an explanation on Quora. Can someone please expound it and fill in the gaps? It is a very specific expression to the …

They have some overlap in meaning, and with -functional, both could be used. Now, function has Latin roots, so disfunctional would make more sense, in the way that both prefix and suffix …