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name
A diminutive of the female given names Ginger and Virginia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: familiar
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name
A surname from Irish.
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noun
A company; troop; a gang.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
A ‘shanghai’, or handheld catapult.
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Usage: Australia
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noun
A redhead, a ginger-haired person
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Usage: informal
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History
Clipped form of Ginger, itself sometimes a nickname for Virginia.
From a shortened Anglicized form of Irish Mac Fhionn, whence McGinn.
From Middle English gyng, gynge, genge, from Old English genge (“a troop, privy, company, retinue”), from Old Norse gengi, from Proto-Germanic *gangiją (“pace, walk”). Cognate with Middle Low German gink (“a going, turn, way”), Old Norse gengi (“accompaniment, entourage, help”), Icelandic gengi (“rate”). Related to Old English gengan (“to go”), from Proto-Germanic *gangijaną (“to go”). More at gang.
Perhaps onomatopoeic.
From ginger.
