Sentence examples for old romany from inspiring English sources

"There is an old Romany saying – Gel on pukker nixes – which means 'move on and say nothing'," says Jim Davies, a police constable at Thames Valley police and executive director and driving force behind the GRTPA.

It always makes me think, 'Well, hopefully she'll be doing coke by the time she's 12. Good luck with your teenage years.' 'Chav' is an old Romany word meaning 'young boy'.

The 28-year-old of Romany Gypsy origin peered through the hatch of her door as she told me about her experience of mental health provision in prison.

His somewhat nostalgic designs are inspired, he said, by an amalgam of period influences: old botanical engravings, Romany culture and Dust Bowl portraits, to name a few.

"In the old days, a Romany family of five would live off welfare, which arrives on the fifth of the month.

The proportion is even higher in secure training centres (STCs), which hold young people between 12 and 18 years old, with 12% considering themselves Gypsy, Romany or Traveller.

The claim that Jewish people killed Christian children to have human blood for matzos at Passover was used to justify antisemitism throughout the middle ages; in the same way, the age-old myth that Romanies are in the habit of kidnapping white children entered popular folklore around the same time, and has persisted to the present day.

Asked what he thinks of his neighbours, a man across the street scratches his head and asks "We have Gypsies here?"For their part, the Bronx Romanies view the old continent with mixed sympathy and disdain.

He also includes their children's efforts to exercise beneficient responsibility over the fiercely independent Romany and Tom as they grow old.

Last Saturday several hundred marched through Hejoszalonta, a village in eastern Hungary, accusing a Romany of murdering a 50-year-old woman.

Christian (Romany Malco, Think Like a Man), the oldest son is running for a local political position and no one knows if he can forget campaigning long enough to focus on the family.