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Definition: Gingery |
GingeryAdjective1. Having a piquant burning taste of spices or peppers; "gingery Chinese food"; "hot peppers"; "hot curry"; "corn chips with peppery salsa"; "spicy tomato sauce". 2. (used especially of hair or fur) having a bright orange-brown color; "a man with gingery hair and bright blue eyes"; "a ginger kitten". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gingery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references) |
Synonyms: GingerySynonyms: ginger (adj), hot (adj), peppery (adj), spicy (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Gingery |
| English words defined with "gingery": ginger ♦ wild ginger. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Donald Gingery 11 days old / Bonn. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "Gingery" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gingery" is used about 29 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 29 | 64,444 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "gingery" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Gingery | Last name | 130 | 63,824 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "gingery": gingery-red. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gingery lathe | 14 |
dave gingery | 5 |
gingery machine | 4 |
gingery | 4 |
david gingery | 3 |
gingery mill | 2 |
gingery lathe plan | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gingery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me xhenxhefil. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | раздразнителен (bad tempered, chippy, choleric, edgy, excitable, explosive, fretful, ill, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, irascible, irritable, liverish, livery, nervous, nervy, peevish, pettish, petulant, prickly, querulous, raspy, ratty, snappish, stroppy, techy, tetchy, touchy, vinegary), червеникав (reddish, rufescent), пикантен (gamy, juicy, piquant, poignant, pungent, racy, rich, salacious, salt, salty, savoury, spicy, tasty, zesty), джинджифилов. (various references) | |
Czech | zázvorový (ginger). (various references) | |
German | rötlich (pink, pinkish, reddish, reddishly, rubicund, ruddily, ruddy, Sandy, sandy-haired). (various references) | |
Greek | επιφυλακτικόσ (canny, cautious, chary, chary of, gingerly, guarded, non committal, offish, qualified, reserved, uncommunicative, undemonstrative). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gyömbér ízû. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ingerygay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ruivo (auburn, carroty, gurnet, mullet, redhead, ruddy, rufous), com vida, com gosto a gengibre, com energia (pithy). (various references) | |
Russian | имбирный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | đumbirni. (various references) | |
Spanish | rojizo (florid, reddish, ruddy, russet), de jengibre. (various references) | |
Swedish | rödbrun (auburn, bay, foxy, maroon, redbrown, red-brown, russet, sorrel), klämmig (peppy, rakish, spunky, zippy), ingefärs-. (various references) | |
Turkish | zencefilli, zencefil gibi, zencefil (ginger), taba renkli, kışkırtan, enerjik (active, beany, brisk, driving, dynamic, energetic, full of beans, ginger, high pressure, lively, peppy, rustling, springy, vibrant, vigorous, virile, warm blooded, zippy), canlı (active, alive, animate, animated, beany, breezy, bright, brightly, brisk, bustling, colorful, colourful, Corky, crisp, crispy, dashing, dewy, driving, exhilarated, expressive, exuberant, feeling, fresh, full of beans, full of life, gay, genially, ginger, glowing, go-go, graphic, graphical, hearty, humming, in the flesh, inspired, life, live, lively, living, living being, living creature, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, peppy, perky, picturesque, quick, racy, rich, rousing, sappy, saturated, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, springy, swinging, vibrant, vital, vivacious, vivid, warm, with it, zippy). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | імбирний, рудуватий (auburn, reddish), запальний (choleric, explosive, fiery, hard-nosed, hasty, heated, hot, hot tempered, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hotheaded, inflammable, inflammatory, ireful, ornery, passionate, peppery, quick tempered, short tempered, spunky, testy), дражливий (aggravating, burdensome, nerve racking, sorehead). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | có vị gừng hay nổi nóng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Gingery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fingery, ganery, Gangotri, gangry, genery, Gigero, gigery, Gingerich, Guignard, gungey, Kingery, Mingary, singery. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gingery" (pronounced ji"njerē) |
| 5 | -i" n j er ē | injury. |
| 3 | -j er ē | drudgery, forgery, menagerie, Neurosurgery, perjury, surgery. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: greying. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-g-i-n-r-y" | |
-1 letter: ginger, gyring. | |
-2 letters: eying, reign, renig. | |
-3 letters: eggy, gien, girn, grey, grig, grin, gyre, gyri, rein, ring, yegg. | |
-4 letters: egg, eng, erg, ern, gen, gey, gie, gig, gin, ire, reg, rei, rig, rin, rye, yen, yin. | |
-5 letters: en, er, in, ne, re, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-g-i-n-r-y" | |
+1 letter: gingerly. | |
+3 letters: gallerying, gruelingly. | |
+4 letters: degradingly, gentrifying, grovelingly, lingeringly. | |
+5 letters: begrudgingly, engrossingly, gingerbready, glitteringly, gyromagnetic, staggeringly, swaggeringly. | |
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