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ˌginger-ˈbeer
[f. ginger + beer.]
1. a. An aerated drink made of cream of tartar, lemon juice, sugar, yeast, and water, and flavoured with ginger.
1809A. Shero (title) [Watt Bibl. Brit.] A Practical Treatise on Brewing..; with an Appendix, containing Directions for making Ginger Beer [etc.]. 1813L. Hunt Corr. (1862) I. 87, I am at present trying a composition called ginger-beer, which has all the pleasantness and usefulness of soda-water, without striking cold upon one. 1826Lamb Lett. (1888) II. 149 There's a capital farm-house two thirds of the way to the Lover's Seat, with incomparable plum cake, ginger-beer, etc. 1845Mrs. Carlyle Lett. I. 319 Like a bottle of ginger-beer bursting the cork. 1875A. R. Hope My School-boy Fr. 136 We had a bottle of ginger-beer each.
attrib.1838Dickens O. Twist viii, A candle, stuck in a ginger-beer bottle. 1840Thackeray Gt. Hoggarty Diam. x, In the beginning of 1824, the Jamaica Ginger Beer Company shut up shop. 1871A. Edwardes Ought we to visit her? III. viii. 131 Among the ginger-beer stalls and Aunt Sallies of the back regions.
b. ginger-beer plant, a mixture of a yeast (Saccharomyces pyriformis) and a bacterium (Bacillus vermiformis) used to ferment sugar solution to make ginger-beer.
1892H. M. Ward (title) The ginger-beer plant and the organisms. 1953J. Ramsbottom Mushrooms & Toadstools xviii. 213 The old English Ginger-Beer plant is a globular gelatinous white mass usually about the size of a pea and is used for fermenting sugary fluids.
2. Rhyming slang for ‘queer’: a homosexual; also as adj. Also ellipt. as ginger.
1959E. Mannin Blue-Eyed Boy i. i. 14 There were blokes..that were definitely ginger-beer—that never had a fancy for the opposite sex, but plenty for their own. 1964C. Rougvie Medal from Pamplona vii. 91 ‘There are too many ginger beers in the place.’ ‘Well, if you don't like queers..what are you doing here with that fellow?’ 1968A. Williams Brotherhood i. 38 ‘Unless you prefer ginger.’ ‘Ginger?’ ‘Beer, dear.’..‘You ever meet an Aussie who was queer?’
Hence gingerˈbeery a., resembling the effervescing or ‘popping’ of gingerbeer.
1852Dickens Househ. Words 31 July 454/1 A brisk, ginger-beery sort of speech. 1858― Lett. 23 Aug. (1880) II. 58 He went off in the absurdest little gingerbeery giggle. 1948J. Betjeman Coll. Poems (1958) 151 And ginger-beery surf hissed ‘Christabel!’ |