gingerness

noun — 2 senses

gingerness

noun

Etymology From ginger + -ness.

1

Gingerliness.

2

Derogatory, Informal, Sometimes Redheadedness.

  • Gingernut was small and ginger too, though of course he didn’t wear braces. That smallness and gingerness was probably, deep down, why Zoe chose him out of the dozens of little balls of fluff snuggled up together behind the glass at the pet shop.2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

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