gingerer

Adjective (1)

ginger (comparative more ginger or (rare) gingerer, superlative most ginger or (rare) gingerest)

1. Of a reddish-brown color.
   • My eyes track upwards past the shoes to a pair of skinny legs, skinnier than mine, then to a tight black mini. Above that is a crisp white shirt. And crowning the whole thing is a mop of the gingerest hair I’ve ever seen in my life.2003, Chrissie Glazebrook, “The Cadogan Hotel”, in Blue Spark Sisters, London: William Heinemann, →ISBN, page 22
2. Having hair or fur of this color.
   • a ginger tomcat

Adjective (2)

ginger (comparative more ginger or (rare) gingerer, superlative most ginger or (rare) gingerest)

1. (Canada, UK, US, regional) Very careful or cautious; also, delicate, sensitive.
   • He’s going to get an interview about ten o’clock, making the old gentleman predict war, and we’ll get out the gingerest kind of a special on the strength of it!1899 April 1, Richard Stillman Powell [pseudonym; Ralph Henry Barbour], “The President and Tom Collins”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 171, number 40, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Curtis Publishing...

   Synonyms:

   gingerish, gingerly

Adjective (3)

ginger (not comparable)

1. (Cockney, UK, slang) Homosexual.

See all 22 meanings of ginger