ging
/ˈɡɪŋ/
ging noun: a company; troop; a gang.
Noun (1)
ging (plural gings)
- A company; troop; a gang.
- There is a knot, a ging, a pack, a conspiracy againſt me.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- Proceeding further, I am met vvith a vvhole ging of vvords and phraſes not mine, for he hath maim'd them, and like a ſlye depraver mangl'd them in this his vvicked Limbo, vvorſe then the ghoſt of Deiphobus appear'd to his friend Æneas.1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually...
Noun (2)
ging (plural gings)
- A ‘shanghai’, or handheld catapult.
- I put a stone in the ging and let fly.1965, Mudrooroo, Wild Cat Falling, HarperCollins, published 2001, page 13
Noun (3)
IPA/d͡ʒɪnd͡ʒ/
ging (plural gings)
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Ging
IPA/d͡ʒɪnd͡ʒ/
Ging
- A diminutive of the female given names Ginger and Virginia.
- Amelia thereupon taught Ginger Park and Lucy. [...] In one picture Amelia and three friends—Katherine Dolan (referred to as Dolan), Lucy (Toot), Virginia Park (Ging) are lying on their stomachs, their chins cupped in their hands, staring at the camera either before or after a basketball game; it is...1999, Susan Butler, East to the Dawn
- But while Crosby was their first main topic of conversation, Johnny and Ginger soon began to have the experiences that draw people closer together. [...] “For years,” Mercer said, “anytime anything went wrong, Ging and I would just look at each other and say ‘Borough Hall!’ and think of that poor...2003, Philip Furia, Skylark
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Ging
Ging (plural Gings)
- A surname from Irish.
Forms of ging
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | gings |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Gings |
Origin of ging
From Middle English gyng, gynge, genge, from Old English genge (“a troop, privy, company, retinue”), from Old Norse gengi, from Proto-Germanic *gangiją (“pace, walk”). Cognate with Middle Low German gink (“a going, turn, way”), Old Norse gengi (“accompaniment, entourage, help”), Icelandic gengi (“rate”). Related to Old English gengan (“to go”), from Proto-Germanic *gangijaną (“to go”). More at gang.
Perhaps onomatopoeic.
From ginger.
Words that rhyme with ging
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- sling
- bring
- jing
- ding
- cling
- unstring
- ming
- bing
- ching
- fingerling
- something
- zing
- Byng
- Beijing
- bling
- cha-ching
- ling
- Peking
- peng ting
- Singh
- thring
- Tring
- upswing
- abstinence ring
- aswing
- awing
- badelynge
- bering
- Chongqing
- conserving
- hang gliding
- hing
- ing
- Jingning
- Jining
- ka-ching
- kerching
- Kunming
- mis-sing
- morphling
- pling
- png
- qing
- Southern Ming
- submitting
- tang ping
- ting
- tinkering
Questions about ging
- What does ging mean?
- Ging means a company; troop; a gang.
- What part of speech is ging?
- Ging can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce ging?
- Ging is pronounced /ˈɡɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of ging?
- The plural of ging is gings.
Words near ging in the dictionary
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