romanichal
/ˈɹɑmɪniˌt͡ʃæl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A member of a Romani people found in the United Kingdom.
Example Sentences
- ""We're just going to fade away," a Romanichal man told me at the Barnet Horse Fair, as recently as 1993. "It's all going to go.""
- "My genes would best be described as a melting pot – my mother is part Bulgarian Roma, part Romanichal (English Romany), and my dad is part Romanichal, part Irish Traveller – thus, it was hardly surprising when I was born a blue-eyed milk bottle."
Etymology
Borrowed from Angloromani Romanichal.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɹɑmɪniˌt͡ʃæl/
- British English: /ˈɹɒmɪnɪtʃæl/