kipsy

From kips (“plural of kip (lodging-house or sleep)”) +‎ -y (“diminutive suffix”).^[1]

kipsy (plural kipsies)

1. (Australia) A house or shelter.^[1]

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—”

• kipsie

kipsy (plural kipsies)

1. (obsolete, slang) A basket.

• kibsey

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

• pisky, spiky