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- verb Present participle of
ginger .
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Examples
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What have we all been doing but 'gingering' Ferrier for the last six months?
The Testing of Diana Mallory Humphry Ward 1885
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Correcting your schoolboy errors, gingering the strand along, humourous, not malicious still less defamatory.
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Suilful eyes and sallowfoul hairweed and the sickly sigh from her gingering mouth like a Dublin bar in the moarning. —
Finnegans Wake 2006
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All the young women in Society nowadays spoke like Fleur, as if they had found the old way of speaking English slow and flat, and were gingering it with little pinches.
Swan Song 2004
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'And there's one thing that's gingering up the Great Powers – there's a rumour that Nasser is a sick man.
The Alamut Ambush Price, Anthony 1971
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Nurse Kettle, chagrined by his manner, thought, “What you need, my dear, is a bit of gingering up.”
Scales of Justice Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1955
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They talk vaguely of changes and "gingering it up," and "adding a little pep," but say that can be done at rehearsals.
Jane Journeys On Ruth Comfort Mitchell 1918
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"We aim at gingering up school going girls for excellence in their various schools.
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