Difference between Pikey and Gypsy

What is the difference between Pikey and Gypsy?

Pikey as a noun is a low-ranking soldier who merely carries a pike. while Gypsy as a noun is an itinerant person or any person or group with qualities traditionally ascribed to romani people, including suspected of making a living from dishonest practices or theft etc.

Pikey

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to steal.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A low-ranking soldier who merely carries a pike. A working-class (often underclass) person; can vary from specifically Irish Travellers, gypsies, or travellers from any ethnic background, but now increasingly used for any socially undesirable person, with negative connotations of benefit fraud, theft, single-parent families and living on run-down estates.

Gypsy

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of or having the qualities of an itinerant person or group with qualities traditionally ascribed to Romani people, including suspected of making a living from dishonest practices or theft etc.Gypsy, of or belonging to the Romani. This term is considered pejorative by many.Of or belonging to the Gypsy race (Webster).

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An itinerant person or any person or group with qualities traditionally ascribed to Romani people, including suspected of making a living from dishonest practices or theft etc.Gypsy, a member of the Romani people, or one of its sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichel, etc), traditionally thought to have originally from India and entered Europe in 14th or 15th century, etc. Cf. Bohemian, Romany, traveller.One of a vagabond race, not necessarily Romani

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