Meaning of gingery | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Somewhat reddish or reddish-brown in colour (especially of hair or skin colouring).
2. Having reddish-brown hair. (of a person)
3. Having a flavour or aroma of the spice ginger; containing that spice.
4. Energetic, vigorous, lively, peppy, zippy.
   dated
5. Ginger, inhibited, cautious.
   US, dated

Equivalents

Examples

“gingery hair / freckles; the gingery fur of a fox”

“The very learned gentleman […] has cooled the natural heat of his gingery complexion in pools and fountains of law […]”

“He was a small, thick man, with a great rounded, bald head and one thin border⟳ of gingery curls.”

“He had bright red hair, not just gingery like⟳ Andrew’s […]”

“The red-haired pilgrim was beside himself with the thought that at least this poor Kurtz had been properly revenged. […] He positively danced, the bloodthirsty little gingery beggar.”

“a gingery broth / stir-fry”

“Nostalgic, gingery hints of Spanish geranium wafted in her mother’s room […]”

“The boys have⟳ made themselves very popular with the fans here, because a good, gingery gaffe is played all the time, regardless of the score⟳.”

“The recent showing of the locals has been a big disappointment to the fans, the team playing loosely, and the gingery coaching and hustling of Hulswitt has been the only redeeming feature.”

“1912, P. R. Bennett, “Patience on a Throne” in Ducdame: A Book of Verses, London: Elliot Stock⟳, p. 44, The man who reads his history of any clime or age Finds characters of potentates disfiguring each page, So touchy and so gingery That every little injury Will send⟳ them flying off into a rage.”

“The door to the street opened and Nobby himself came striding in, all gingery action and alertness, like⟳ an Airedale after a dustman.”

“I walked slowly, and with an assumed air of careless indifference. I counterfeited the Comanche walk⟳—not that bold free port—the magnificent and inimitable stride⟳, so characteristic of Chippewa and Shawano, of Huron and Iroquois—but the shuffling gingery step of an English jockey; for such in reality is the gait of the Comanche Indian when afoot.”

“They are unanimously shy of Ade in their horn-books for sophomores, and they are gingery in their praise⟳ of him in their innumerable review⟳ articles.”

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