different between shelter vs kipsy

English

Etymology

From Middle English sheltron, sheldtrume (“roof or wall formed by locked shields”), from Old English s?ildtruma, s?yldtruma (“a phalanx, company (of troops), a tortoise, a covering, shed, shelter”, literally “shield-troop”), from s?yld, s?ield (“shield”) + truma (“a troop of soldiers”). Cognate with Scots schilthrum, schiltrum. More at shield, and Old English trymman (“to strengthen”), from trum (“strong, firm”) at trim.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???lt?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???lt?/
• Rhymes: -?lt?(r)

Noun

shelter (plural shelters)

1. A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.
2. An institution that provides temporary housing for homeless people, battered women etc.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

shelter (third-person singular simple present shelters, present participle sheltering, simple past and past participle sheltered)

1. (transitive) To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.
   • 1663, John Dryden, Epistle to Dr. Charleton

     Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head.

   • 1829, Robert Southey, Sir Thomas More; or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society

     You have no convents […] in which such persons may be received and sheltered.

2. (intransitive) To take cover.

   During the rainstorm, we sheltered under a tree.

Translations

Anagrams

• Ehlerts, Hertels, Shetler, helters, three Ls

English

Etymology 1

From kips (“plural of kip (lodging-house or sleep)”) +? -y (“diminutive suffix”).

Noun

kipsy (plural kipsies)

1. (Australia) A house or shelter.

Verb

kipsy (third-person singular simple present kipsies, present participle kipsying, simple past and past participle kipsied)

1. To board, to reside.
   • 2007, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 155,

     “ […] It?s some kind of boarding-house that she kipsies in—”

Alternative forms

• kipsie

References

Etymology 2

Noun

kipsy (plural kipsies)

1. (obsolete, slang) A basket.

Alternative forms

• kibsey

References

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary (as kypsey)

Anagrams

• pisky, spiky