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Gingery

adjective

Having a taste like that of ginger.

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

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"Gingery" Quotes from Famous Books

... was ready enough to take me to Havana. However, he insisted upon calling down his mate, a gingery fellow, short, too, but wizened, and ...

— Romance • Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer

... with the thought that at least this poor Kurtz had been properly revenged. 'Say! We must have made a glorious slaughter of them in the bush. Eh? What do you think? Say?' He positively danced, the bloodthirsty little gingery beggar. And he had nearly fainted when he saw the wounded man! I could not help saying, 'You made a glorious lot of smoke, anyhow.' I had seen, from the way the tops of the bushes rustled and flew, ...

— Heart of Darkness • Joseph Conrad

... opponents with his gloomy sarcasm is as merry as a grig at a French watering-place. The learned gentleman who weeps by the pint on the smallest provocation has not shed a tear these six weeks. The very learned gentleman who has cooled the natural heat of his gingery complexion in pools and fountains of law until he has become great in knotty arguments for term-time, when he poses the drowsy bench with legal "chaff," inexplicable to the uninitiated and to most of the initiated too, is roaming, with a characteristic delight in aridity and ...

— Bleak House • Charles Dickens

... The gingery little "pepper nuts," pfeffernuesse, imported from Germany in barrels at Christmastime, make one of the best accompaniments to almost any kind of cheese. For contrast try ...

— The Complete Book of Cheese • Robert Carlton Brown