It proves you're not too smart. Gyp is ambigous at best. If someone told me
as an adult that it was offensive to them, I'd stop using it, at least in
their presence. You're incapable of doing that, so therefore you must not be
an adult or you're not to bright. You pick.

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That's bizarre... Did you ask why?

A couple I knew a while back were Gypsies from which the term "gyp"
derives.
They were Jewish albiet not mainstream. They claimed that all true
Gypsies were
Jewish and descended from Jews driven out of Judea by the Romans who
became
nomadic rather than settling into ghettos.

Your question proves my point. Why would you think it bizzare for Jews
(Gypsies) to be offended by "gyp", a term meaning to cheat, but think that
"Jewing down", a term that means honest haggling, is derogatory?