Ginger
- Proper noun. (given name, female) .
- Proper noun. given name reserved for animals having ginger- or orange-coloured fur or feathers.
- Noun. Any plant of a genus (''Zingiber'', especially ''Zingiber officinale'') of tropical Asiatic and Polynesian herbs of a family (''Zingiberaceae'', the ginger family) with pungent aromatic rhizomes used as a condiment and as a stimulant and acarminative.
- Noun. The rhizome of this plant used as a spice either as it is or in dried powdered form.
- Noun. A reddish-brown colour/color.
- Noun. (colloquial) (countable) A person with reddish-brown hair; a redhead.
- Noun. (colloquial) (uncountable) vitality, vigour, liveliness (of character).
- Adjective. (''used to describe hair'') Of a reddish-brown colour.
- Adjective. flavoured with ginger.
- Verb. To add ginger to.
- Verb. To enliven, to spice (up).
- Verb. To move gingerly.
- Noun. (UK, Cockney rhyming slang) a homosexual.
- Adjective. (UK, Cockney rhyming slang) homosexual.
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