gingeryadj.

1807 Whole Proc. Trial Information against R. Henshaw 165 He was concerned, along with Kemjee Kallian, in the sale of some gingery seed.

1879 Era 7 Sept. 6/3 Mr Harcourt..proceeded..to pour out the gingery, but thoroughly acceptable, beverage.

1882 W. E. Griffis Corea: Hermit Nation ii. xxxii. 291 A small reading-desk, and a cup of gingery water to refresh his palate, complete his outfit.

1938 Washington Post 23 Dec. 16/2 Gingery spice cookies, tingling with flavor.

1979 Gourmet Sept. 106/3 Deep-fried fish (usually sea bass) with a gingery sauce containing tomato and Chinese mushrooms.

2005 Delicious Nov. 48/1 Potatoes in a gingery tomato sauce.

1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang 88 Gingery—(stud) hot, distempered; applied to horses, whether they have been figged or not.

1894 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 3 Oct. The reply filed this morning is gingery.

1966 Life 16 Dec. 19/3 The blasphemous Irish wit and the gingery temper that rarely peep out from prosaic notes.

2007 Parl. Deb. (House of Representatives, Austral.) 295 52/1 Mr Leon Punch—a fiery, gingery character—was begging me to enter politics for some time.

1844 Rep. Commissioners Bribery Sudbury 194 in Parl. Papers XVIII. 247 A gingery whiskered man; something of the carrotty sort.

1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xix. 184 The very learned gentleman who has cooled the natural heat of his gingery complexion in pools and fountains of law.

1879 M. E. Braddon Cloven Foot iv. 41 The landlady was a lean-looking widow, with a false front of gingery curls.

1936 ‘R. Hyde’ Passport to Hell vii. 125 The goat, a gingery old Nanny bleating forlornly about her home and father, was led into the circle of black watching faces.

1957 Vogue 15 Oct. 105/1 Gingery wool pants—cut to fit all the way and slim as they go.

2003 A. Sayle Overtaken 88 On the doorstep of my house stood a teenage boy, tall and muscular with gingery blond hair.