GINGERED

Etymology

Adjective

gingered (comparative more gingered, superlative most gingered)

Spiced with ginger.

Verb

gingered

simple past tense and past participle of ginger

Anagrams

• greeding, niggered, re-nigged, renigged

Source: Wiktionary


GINGER

Gin"ger, n. Etym: [OE. ginger, gingever, gingivere, OF. gengibre, gingimbre, F. gingembre, L. zingiber, zingiberi, fr. Gr. zenjebil, fr. Skr. , prop., hornshaped; horn + vëra body.]

1. (Bot.)

Definition: A plant of the genus Zingiber, of the East and West Indies. The species most known is Z. officinale.

2. The hot and spicy rootstock of Zingiber officinale, which is much used in cookery and in medicine. Ginger beer or 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 beer (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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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