Definitions
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- adjective having a relatively
ginger color.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then he stops, looks back, narrows his foxy lids, listens -- quite perceptibly, you know, a kind of gingerish blur; then he seems to open this corner bookcase here, as if it were a door and goes out along what I suppose might at some time have been an outside gallery or balcony, unless, as I rather fancy, the house extended once beyond these windows.
The Return Walter De la Mare 1914
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For the rest, he had gingerish, curling hair and a square, masterful face that was no way impaired by a badly-broken nose.
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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His hair was wiry and gingerish and brushed backwards from the temples.
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Douglas 1996
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Plumpish, with thinning, gingerish hair and a cupped, ginger moustache, he had the appearance of a retired army officer.
Hard Frost Wingfield, R. D. 1995
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Now that coarseness was very much more obvious, his skin burned a reddish brown by the Australian sun, his blond hair now more gingerish and very obviously receding.
Yesterday's Echoes Jordan, Penny 1993
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Thomas, rising forty, prematurely bald, pale skinned, sporting a gingerish moustache, had married a woman who acidly belittled him every time she opened her mouth.
Hot Money Francis, Dick 1987
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His hair was wiry and gingerish and brushed backwards from the temples.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1979
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Women, she observed, were largely repelled by the gingerish Cape York meteorite specimens outside the Geological Museum in deals with his paralysis while Smokie recruits Sawyer. by February 17, 2010 - Now that we know what did we can get back to business with the adventures of, who tends to have ...
WN.com - Articles related to Australian Aboriginal singer Ruby Hunter dies 2010
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He described one of the men as being around six-feet tall and "Anglo", of athletic build and gingerish-coloured hair, and the second man as shorter, with dark hair and a darker complexion.
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He described one of the men as being around six-feet tall and "Anglo", of athletic build and gingerish-coloured hair, and the second man as shorter, with dark hair and a darker complexion.
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