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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

... that he Has a natural right to be In her kitchen when she's baking Pies and cakes and ginger bread; And each night to me he brings All the pretty, tender things About little by-gone children That ...

— The Path to Home • Edgar A. Guest

... mixed with ginger out of the silver cups looted from the church of the Christians. But that imposing figure had only to show itself for the ...

— Eminent Victorians • Lytton Strachey

... Bill left Pluto's door open an' he got out. It took 'em some time to get him back, an' they finally roped him. None o' the boys seemed anxious to go into his stall an' take the rope off unless he'd let them ride him a while to get the ginger out of him. Jabez took a short club an' went in an' took off the rope, an' if the boys hadn't been handy he'd 'a' been took off himself. As it was the hoss had smashed ...

— Happy Hawkins • Robert Alexander Wason

... he's talking about, Grannis," said Graham. "He tried to ginger things up a bit when he was new here, like you are; found a litter of coyotes one September—thought they were timber wolves, I guess, and braced up with his story to the old man." The speaker ...

— Ben Blair - The Story of a Plainsman • Will Lillibridge

... well, certainly; and he seldom goes through the village without making considerable purchase for the benefit of the children in his path, who take care to be not a few. I found little Jenny Woods made small distinction between Mr. Geoffrey and Mr. Ginger. But come, Alex, why ...

— Henrietta's Wish • Charlotte M. Yonge

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