Irish Traveller
English
Alternative forms
- Irish Traveler
Noun
Irish Traveller (plural Irish Travellers)
- (Ireland) A member of an indigenous nomadic ethnic minority in Ireland, the Pavee.
Synonyms
- Gypsy (“the Pavee are not descendants of the Romani”) (proscribed)
- Minkier (endonym)
- Pavee, pavee (derogatory, endonym)
- Pikey, pikey (derogatory)
- Pikie, pikie (derogatory)
- Traveler
- Traveller
Hypernyms
Coordinate terms
- Shelta (the language of the Irish Travellers)
Translations
member of a minority in Ireland
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