gingery
gingery adjective: somewhat reddish or reddish-brown in colour (especially of hair or skin colouring).
Adjective
gingery (comparative more gingery, superlative most gingery)
- Somewhat reddish or reddish-brown in colour (especially of hair or skin colouring).
- 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 […]1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, “chapter 19”, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC
- Having reddish-brown hair. (of a person)
- 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.1899, Joseph Conrad, chapter 2, in Heart of Darkness
- Having a flavour or aroma of the spice ginger; containing that spice.
- a gingery broth / stir-fry
- Nostalgic, gingery hints of Spanish geranium wafted in her mother’s room […]2005, Truman Capote, chapter 6, in Summer Crossing, New York: Random House
- Energetic, vigorous, lively, peppy, zippy.
- 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.1909 March 29, Fred Tenney, “Giants Take Last Game from Dallas”, in New York Times
- 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.1911 August 19, Kentucky Irish American, Louisville, Kentucky
- Ginger, inhibited, cautious.
- 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...1857, Thomas Mayne Reid, chapter 93, in The War-Trail, New York: De Witt, page 455
- 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.1919, H. L. Mencken, “George Ade”, in Prejudices: First Series, NY: Knopf, page 115
gingery meaning in Kannada
gingery in Kannada
- ಶುಂಠಿಯ ಗುಣವುಳ್ಳ, ಶುಂಠಿಯ ಬಣ್ಣದ, ಹುರುಪಿನ, ಹುಮ್ಮಸ್ಸಿನ
Examples of gingery in a sentence
- He was a small, thick man, with a great rounded, bald head and one thin border of gingery curls.1898, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Club-Footed Grocer”, in Round the Fire Stories, London: Smith, Elder & Co., published 1908, page 212:
- He had bright red hair, not just gingery like Andrew’s […]1972, Norma Klein, chapter 7, in Mom, the Wolf Man and Me, New York: Avon, page 75:
- The door to the street opened and Nobby himself came striding in, all gingery action and alertness, like an Airedale after a dustman.1994, John Malcolm, chapter 18, in Hung Over, New York: St. Martin’s Press, page 130:
Forms of gingery
| comparative | more gingery |
|---|---|
| superlative | most gingery |
Origin of gingery
From ginger + -y.
Questions about gingery
- What does gingery mean?
- Gingery means somewhat reddish or reddish-brown in colour (especially of hair or skin colouring).
- What is gingery in Kannada?
- Gingery in Kannada is ಶುಂಠಿಯ ಗುಣವುಳ್ಳ, ಶುಂಠಿಯ ಬಣ್ಣದ, ಹುರುಪಿನ. See Gingery meaning in Kannada.
- How do you use gingery in a sentence?
- He was a small, thick man, with a great rounded, bald head and one thin border of gingery curls.
- What part of speech is gingery?
- Gingery is an adjective.
Words near gingery in the dictionary
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