Crossword clues for ginger
ginger
- Mary Ann's hutmate
- Hot-tasting condiment
- Bread flavoring
- With knockdown, a prankster's game
- Type of ale or beer
- Turmeric relative
- Teriyaki seasoning
- Spicy ingredient
- Spice used in some Christmas cookies
- Spice that can precede "ale" or "beer"
- It may be found in a snap
- Dancer Rogers
- Baker's spice
- ___ ale (type of soft drink)
- __ snap (type of cookie)
- __ snap
- Genial Reg mixed drink
- Biscuit barrel upside-down below item on spice rack?
- Germ gets in badly preserved root
- Stop alcohol being added to German sweetmeat
- Teriyaki ingredient
- India leads the world in its production
- Redhead
- Perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems
- Liveliness and energy
- Zesty staple of Asian cuisine
- Kind of ale or beer
- One of Fred's partners
- Spice Girl drops hands with rage, blowing top
- Spice Girl
- Fred Astaire's dancing partner
- Hot spice
- Hot fragrant spice
- Light reddish-yellow
- Sushi condiment
- Hair colour
- "Gilligan's Island" castaway
- Sushi accompaniment
- Sushi side dish
- Sushi accompanier
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ginger \Gin"ger\, n. [OE. ginger, gingever, gingivere, OF. gengibre, gingimbre, F. gingembre, L. zingiber, zingiberi, fr. Gr. ?; of Oriental origin; cf. Ar. & Pers. zenjeb[=i]l, fr. Skr. [,c][.r][.n]gav["e]ra, prop., hornshaped; ???ga horn + v["e]ra body.]
(Bot.) A plant of the genus Zingiber, of the East and West Indies. The species most known is Zingiber officinale.
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The hot and spicy rootstock of Zingiber officinale, which is much used in cookery and in medicine.
Ginger ale (a) a soft drink flavored with ginger and carbonated. (a) See ginger beer, below.
Ginger beer or Ginger ale, a mild beer impregnated with ginger.
Ginger cordial, a liquor made from ginger, raisins, lemon rind, and water, and sometimes whisky or brandy.
Ginger pop. See Ginger ale (above).
Ginger wine, wine impregnated with ginger.
Wild ginger (Bot.), an American herb ( Asarum Canadense) with two reniform leaves and a long, cordlike rootstock which has a strong taste of ginger.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from Old English gingifer, from Medieval Latin gingiber, from Latin zingiberi, from Greek zingiberis, from Prakrit (Middle Indic) singabera, from Sanskrit srngaveram, from srngam "horn" + vera- "body," so called from the shape of its root. But this may be Sanskrit folk etymology, and the word may be from an ancient Dravidian name that also produced the Malayalam name for the spice, inchi-ver, from inchi "root." See gin (v.). The word apparently was readopted in Middle English from Old French gingibre (Modern French gingembre). Meaning "spirit, spunk, temper" is from 1843, American English. Ginger-ale recorded by 1822; ginger-snap as a type of cookie is from 1855, American English.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
1 (context of hair English) Of a reddish-brown colour. 2 Flavoured with ginger. n. 1 The pungent aromatic rhizome of a tropical Asian herb, ''Zingiber officinale'', used as a spice and as a stimulant and acarminative. 2 The plant that produces this rhizome. 3 Other species belonging to the same family, Zingiberaceae, especially those of the genus ''Zingiber'' 4 A reddish-brown colour/color. 5 (context colloquial often derogatory countable English) A person with reddish-brown hair; a redhead. 6 (context colloquial uncountable English) vitality, vigour, liveliness (of character) v
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1 To add ginger to. 2 To enliven, to spice (up). 3 To apply ginger to the anus of a horse to encourage it to carry its tail high and move in a lively fashion. Etymology 2
vb. To move gingerly. Etymology 3
(context UK Cockney rhyming slang English) homosexual. n. (context UK Cockney rhyming slang English) a homosexual.
WordNet
n. perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems
dried ground gingerroot [syn: powdered ginger]
pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Oriental cookery [syn: gingerroot]
liveliness and energy; "this tonic is guaranteed to give you more pep" [syn: pep, peppiness]
adj. (used especially of hair or fur) having a bright orange-brown color; "a man with gingery hair and bright blue eyes"; "a ginger kitten" [syn: gingery]
v. add ginger to in order to add flavor; "ginger the soup"
Wikipedia
Ginger is a delicacy, medicine, or cooking spice made from the stem of the plant Zingiber officinale.
Ginger may also refer to:
Ginger is an album released by Speedy J in 1993 as the sixth release in Warp's Artificial Intelligence series. "De-Orbit" also appears on the Artificial Intelligence compilation. It has been described as "among the finest lounge-room techno or 'electronic listening music' releases of the decade."
Ginger (Zingiber officinale) is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or simply ginger, is widely used as a spice or a folk medicine.
It is a herbaceous perennial which grows annual stems about a meter tall bearing narrow green leaves and yellow flowers. Ginger is in the family Zingiberaceae, to which also belong turmeric (Curcuma longa), cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum), and galangal. Ginger originated in the tropical rainforest in Southern Asia. Although ginger no longer grows wild, it is thought to have originated on the Indian subcontinent. The ginger plants grown in India show the largest amount of genetic variation. The larger the number of genetic variations, the longer the plant is thought to have grown in that region. Ginger was exported to Europe via India in the first century AD as a result of the lucrative spice trade and was used extensively by the Romans.
The distantly related dicots in the genus Asarum are commonly called wild ginger because of their similar taste.
Ginger was a Canadian rock band in the 1990s. The band initially consisted of Tom Hooper on vocals,guitar and bass, Chris Hooper on drums and Vincent Jones on keyboards, following the departure of Kevin Kane from their earlier band The Grapes of Wrath. Lanny Hussey and Sean Ashby added extra guitars working as session players.
With the Grapes of Wrath name and song catalogue tied up in legal wrangling between Kane and the remainder of the band, Jones and the Hooper brothers adopted the name Ginger, and released a self-titled EP under that name in 1993.
In 1994, Ginger released Far Out. Both Far Out and the self-titled EP were noted for their strong similarity to the classic Grapes jangle-pop sound.
In 1996, Jones left the band and Lanny Hussey was promoted to full membership. Ginger then made a more conscious effort to develop its own distinctive sound, adding some trip hop and electronic elements to their album Suddenly I Came to My Senses. Jones played keyboards on the album, billed as a "special guest"; long-time session sideman Ashby was also a special guest performer. Sarah McLachlan (billed merely as an "additional musician") performed some of the backing vocals on the album. The song, "Come To Me" was featured in the film Kissed, and was included on the soundtrack album as well.
The members of Ginger went their separate ways following that recording. Jones, Ashby and Chris Hooper became session musicians — Jones and Ashby appear on McLachlan's live albums Mirrorball and Afterglow Live. Meanwhile, Tom Hooper reunited with Kane for a new Grapes of Wrath album, Field Trip, in 2000. Jones and Chris Hooper did not participate in that reunion; Chris Hooper did, however, reunite with Tom Hooper and Kevin Kane for the band's 2013 album High Road.
Ginger is a children's picture book by Charlotte Voake. In 1997 it won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold Award. It is about a pampered house cat who resents the sudden appearance of a kitten in her life. The book is followed by Ginger Finds a Home, a prequel, and Ginger and the Mystery Visitor, in which Ginger and the kitten confront a stranger.
Ginger was a British comic strip series, introduced in the first issue of The Beezer in 1957. The character was the magazine's cover star until 1961, after which Pop, Dick and Harry took over the cover for a few years afterwards, but Ginger returned to the front cover in 1964.
Ginger was a gag-a-day comic strip about a young boy. A typical gag was a one- or two-pager.
He was originally created by Dudley D. Watkins, who drew the strip until his death in 1969. Bob McGrath then took over, drawing it until 1985, when he in turn was succeeded by Jimmy Glen, who drew the strip until the Beezer merged with the Topper. In the later Beezer annuals, he was drawn by Nick Brennan. The character was last seen on the covers of D.C. Thomson's monthly Classics from the Comics, issue # 134 (May 2007) and issue #141 (January 2008), in brand new artwork by Ken H. Harrison.
Ginger (born David Leslie Walls; 17 December 1964 in South Shields) is an English rock guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known for his band The Wildhearts.
Ginger is an English given name and surname. Notable people with the name include:
Ginger is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Lewis Seiler and written by Arthur Kober. The film stars Jane Withers, O. P. Heggie, Jackie Searl, Katharine Alexander and Walter Woolf King. The film was released on July 5, 1935, by Fox Film Corporation.
Usage examples of "ginger".
Sal Simmons kept a little shop, An bacca seld, an spice, An traitle drink, an ginger pop, An other things as nice.
Marie is belaying him and it is left to Hannah and Ginger to greet Roger and Frances.
Rice, Currants, Sugar, Prunes, Cynamon, Ginger, Pepper, Cloves, Green Ginger, Oil, Butter, Holland cheese or old Cheese, Wine-Vinegar, Canarie-Sack, Aqua-vitae, the best Wines, the best Waters, the juyce of Limons for the scurvy, white Bisket, Oatmeal, Gammons of Bacons, dried Neats tongues, Beef packed up in Vineger, Legs of Mutton minced and stewed, and close packed up, with tried Sewet or Butter in earthen Pots.
Suddenly you saw Verrie Myers, Trish Elders, Groves and Ginger McCord huddled together at a cafeteria table earnestly with Orrie Buhr, Dougie Siefried, Janet Moss, Dexter Cambrook Eickhorn.
If it was unbecoming of Ginger to have recalled the time, it would be caddish of him to repudiate the memory.
The land cleared, coffee, ginger, sugar-cane, edoes, cassada, oranges, limes, plums, bread-fruit, pawpaws, can be planted.
Edoes, cassadas and such bread-stuffs yield in three or four months, and ginger and sugar-cane once a year.
The Indians of Nicaragua make a powerful chicha, a liquor from fresh ginger, as well as the more traditional corn chicha distilled by many Latin American Indians.
After some very interesting exchanges of reminiscences about incurable millers, roarers, lungers, half-bred blood-cattle, gingers, and slugs, which led inevitably to still more interesting stories of the chase, during the course of which both gentlemen found themselves perfectly in accord in their contempt of such ignoble persons as roadsters and skirters, and their conviction that the soundest of all maxims was, Get over the ground if it breaks your neck, formality was at an end between them, and his lordship was not only begging Bertram to call him Chuffy, as everyone else did, but promising to show him some of the rarer sights in town.
I tried to recall the names of both the spices I had known and those I had only heard of, words that would intoxicate him like perfumes, and for him I listed malabaster, incense, nard, lycium, sandal, saffron, ginger, cardamom, senna, zedoaria, laurel, marjoram, coriander, dill, thyme, clove, sesame, poppy, nutmeg, citronella, curcuma, and cumin.
Ginger viciously, and throwing back his arm, was about to hurl the doubloon far out to sea when he was arrested in the act by the sound of a distant rifle shot.
Ginger told herself as she settled back among her pillows and lay dozily awake.
gingerbread made with brown treacle and grated ginger may be eaten with zest, and reliance.
She had a passion for crystallized ginger and creme fraiche, which was hard to find anywhere else, and we both had a nostalgia for smoked turkey and Smithfield ham, which Mother, a Virginian, had seen to it were staples of our childhood.
I like: Azalea, basil, bean, corn, daffodil, fuchsia, freesia, grape, ginger, holly, hibiscus, parsley, poppy, sage, sunflower and rhododendron.