Kipsy noun a house or dwelling AUSTRALIA,1905 From “kip” (a doss house) and the diminutive suffix “-sy”.
[W]ith many variegated roses, lilacs, ivies and grape-vines, we concealed from his unkindly eye the fact that our "kipsie", as Mia called it, was falling down. — Eve Langley, ThePea-Pickers, p. 2, 1958