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Ginger

adjective

(used especially of hair or fur) having a bright orange-brown color. Synonym: gingery. "A ginger kitten"

noun

Perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems.

Dried ground gingerroot. Synonym: powdered ginger.

Pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery. Synonym: gingerroot.

Liveliness and energy. Synonyms: pep, peppiness.

verb

Add ginger to in order to add flavor.

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"Ginger" Quotes from Famous Books

... memory of Dare-devil Harry Whalley in the Eastern Seas, or of keeping an old man in pocket-money and clothes, with, perhaps, a bill for a few hundred first-class cigars thrown in at the end of the year. He would have to buckle-to, and keep her going hard on a scant allowance of gilt for the ginger-bread scrolls at her stem ...

— End of the Tether • Joseph Conrad

... angry] Well, do you consider it consistent with your duty as the god of wine to make the grapes yield nothing but ginger beer? ...

— The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan - The 14 Gilbert And Sullivan Plays • William Schwenk Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan

... the bright sunshine had filled Sultan with ginger, and he was as full of play as a small boy when he wakes up some early winter morning and sees the ground covered with the first snow, and remembers the sled that has lain in ...

— Ted Strong in Montana - With Lariat and Spur • Edward C. Taylor

... standing ginger-beer like a gentleman, happening, as the one that had last passed under the dentist's hands, to be the capitalist of the flying hour. As in all well-regulated families, the usual tariff obtained in ours,—half-a-crown ...

— The Golden Age • Kenneth Grahame

... beautiful simple-hearted girl; rather romantic, and the very reverse of the old maid. Aunt Dorothy is all ginger and vinegar. Niece Juliet, like fine Burgundy, sparkling with life ...

— Mark Hurdlestone - Or, The Two Brothers • Susanna Moodie

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