ginger

• My eyes track upwards past the shoes to a pair of skinny legs, skinnier than mine, then to a tight black mini. Above that is a crisp white shirt. And crowning the whole thing is a mop of the gingerest hair I’ve ever...
• And her hair’s brilliant red. It’s even gingerer than ours. - 2005, Vera M. Black, chapter 8, in Trembling on the Brink, Ilfracombe, Devon: Arthur H. Stockwell Ltd., →ISBN, page 153:
• But as well as being a tough rugby player, Jammer [i.e., James Graham] also has the gingerest hair and palest skin in rugby (and possibly the world). - 2009, Sean Long with Nick Appleyard, “Sozzled in Spain”, in Longy:...

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• A chorus of ‘Aaah’s rose as they would in an episode of The Royle Family, while the gingerest boy in school swung his legs on the worktop and pretended he was Jamaican to be more like his mate sitting next to him, who...
• But now evolution has stepped in, the reds are starting to mutate into bright ginger versions of themselves – and they’re here to stay. Leading squirrel expert Tony Handeigh, 48, is excited about the new breed of...

• He’s going to get an interview about ten o’clock, making the old gentleman predict war, and we’ll get out the gingerest kind of a special on the strength of it! - 1899 April 1, Richard Stillman Powell [pseudonym; Ralph...
• Wherefore, although for my own car I want the “gingerest” possible engine, I realise that it has shortcomings for the general market and I would commend to designers the ideal of an engine that shall be as “woolly” as...
• “Coney Island” is by far the best picture the Hip has had. That says very little for a house that has held the worst, but this F. B. O. [Film Booking Offices] will do business this week for the Hip because it more than...

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Synonyms: gingerly

• The position in the country and in this House might be well expressed by a reference to the recent activities of the ginger party in Great Britain — the party that demanded that more ginger be put into the conduct of...
• He had, however, "put some more ginger in two nights ago. Things move with exasperating slowness in this country.” - 1990, Nancy Elizabeth Gallagher, Egypt's Other Wars: Epidemics and the Politics of Public Health:
• The party managers demanded more “ginger.” - 1919, John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, published 2007, page 77:

• Can you buy dry ginger in Croatia? If not what is an alternative? - 2018 May 2, pyatts, Tripadvisor:

• Here’s, um, not toast but bread, anyway. And a can of ginger. - 2010, Denise Mina, Still Midnight:
• A lot of people will tell you ‘ginger’ tastes best in glass, and there is a science behind that,” says the company’s commercial director. - 2015 August 19, Douglas Fraser, bbc.co.uk:
• Maybe I was naive in thinking that baking with fizzy juice (soda, ginger, pop, whatever your regional name for the stuff is!) would be straightforward. - 2016 January 7, Amy, baking with granny.co.uk:

• They gingered the biscotti, black and whited the cookies and oated the meals. - 2009, Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar:
• The first breather of the day came when Naomi brought some gingered lemonade out to the barn. - 2013, Suzanne Woods Fisher, The Letters (The Inn at Eagle Hill Book #1): A Novel:

• The accident was an excuse merely to replace an old-fashioned regular with old-fashioned notions by an active, fire-eating young general who would ginger things up. - 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber,...
• Before an action began, he liked to make bold predictions as to its outcome; this was part of his way of gingering people up, of creating an aura of victory to come. - 2004, Eric Larrabee, Commander in Chief: Franklin...
• Regarding this human angle, DeMille wrote, "I am sometimes accused of gingering up the Bible with large and lavish infusions of sex and violence. I can only wonder if my accusers have ever read certain parts of the...

• If he had been gingered, he would have gone well. After I bought him, I gingered him. - 1850, William Percivall, editor, The Veterinarian, page 594:
• Gingering is decided cruelty. - 1884, The British Veterinary Journal, volume 18, page 426:
• There he is, moving in his best form, with the full knowledge that that long whip in his rear will once more be round his flanks, as it has often been before, if he fails to wake up when he comes out for a show—well...

• These steps may not be immediately popular, but the society may have to bear with them until they succeed in gingering renewed interest and pride in the language so chosen. - 2002, K. K. Prah, Rehabilitating African...
• In conclusion, intensive campaigns should be done in relation to gingering the nomads' interest in education, improve their interaction with neighbours and encourage them to start considering a more sedentary pastoral...
• I attended their concert first, so that was what gingered me to continue this school. - 2015, “19-year-old student at a music school in Nigeria”, in BBC Newshour:

• Spring training began on Christmas Day, when my cousin and I gingered onto the lot behind the fire station to try out our new spikes. - 1972 September 1, Paul Hemphill, “I Gotta Let the Kid Go”, in Life, volume 73,...
• She gingered her way into the river and timidly splashed into its waters. - 1979, Bill Marshall, Bukom, Longman, →ISBN, page 83:
• I gingered my hands into my grandfather’s [boxing] gloves. - 1992, Donald Anderson, “My Name Is Stephen Mann”, in Aethlon, University of Iowa Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 11: