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gingerness

gingerness noun: gingerliness.

Noun

gingerness (uncountable)

  1. Gingerliness.
  2. (derogatory, informal, sometimes) Redheadedness.
    • Gingernut was small and ginger too, though of course he didn’t wear braces. That smallness and gingerness was probably, deep down, why Zoe chose him out of the dozens of little balls of fluff snuggled up together behind the glass at the pet shop.2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN

Origin of gingerness

From ginger + -ness.

Questions about gingerness

What does gingerness mean?
Gingerness means gingerliness.
What part of speech is gingerness?
Gingerness is a noun.

Words near gingerness in the dictionary

  1. gingerline
  2. gingerlines
  3. gingerliness
  4. gingerly
  5. gingermint
  6. gingerness
  7. gingernut
  8. gingernuts
  9. gingerol
  10. gingerols
  11. gingerous

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