Definitions for gingery

gingery gin·ger·y

Spelling: [jin-juh-ree]
IPA: /ˈdʒɪn dʒə ri/

Gingery is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 89 anagrams from letters in gingery (egginry).

Definitions for gingery

adjective

  1. having the flavor or pungence of ginger; spicy:
  2. piquant; sharp and lively:
  3. of the color of ginger.

Origin of gingery

First recorded in 1850-55; ginger + -y1

Examples for gingery

Perhaps he noted their sleek quarters, the glittering trappings on their backs and their gingery action.

He was a short, gingery, active man with a nose and chin of the Punch type, and whom his shipmates called "Frenchy."

She seemed then to be living with a tinsmith, and her colour was a gingery white.

The donkeyman, a dapper little chap with a dazzling fair skin and a tiny, gingery moustache, worked in a sort of mute transport.

Yellow as a guinea, with gingery hair, yellow eyes, and no figure to save her.

The gingery tint underlying Mr. Ventnor's colouring overlaid it; even the whites of his eyes grew red.

Joses laughed and spread himself, throwing back his gingery curls.

Word Value for gingery
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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