Definition of "ginger"

The position in the country and in this House might be well expressed by a reference to the recent activities of the ginger party in Great Britain — the party that demanded that more ginger be put into the conduct of the war.

1918, Official Report of Debates, House of Commons, Canada Parliament House of Commons

He had, however, "put some more ginger in two nights ago. Things move with exasperating slowness in this country.”

1990, Nancy Elizabeth Gallagher, Egypt's Other Wars: Epidemics and the Politics of Public Health‎

The party managers demanded more “ginger.”

1919, John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace‎, published 2007, page 77

Can you buy dry ginger in Croatia? If not what is an alternative?

2018 May 2, pyatts, Tripadvisor‎

Here’s, um, not toast but bread, anyway. And a can of ginger.

2010, Denise Mina, Still Midnight

A lot of people will tell you ‘ginger’ tastes best in glass, and there is a science behind that,” says the company’s commercial director.

2015 August 19, Douglas Fraser, bbc.co.uk‎

Maybe I was naive in thinking that baking with fizzy juice (soda, ginger, pop, whatever your regional name for the stuff is!) would be straightforward.

2016 January 7, Amy, baking with granny.co.uk‎

They gingered the biscotti, black and whited the cookies and oated the meals.

2009, Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar‎

The first breather of the day came when Naomi brought some gingered lemonade out to the barn.

2013, Suzanne Woods Fisher, The Letters (The Inn at Eagle Hill Book #1): A Novel

The accident was an excuse merely to replace an old-fashioned regular with old-fashioned notions by an active, fire-eating young general who would ginger things up.

1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 886

Before an action began, he liked to make bold predictions as to its outcome; this was part of his way of gingering people up, of creating an aura of victory to come.

2004, Eric Larrabee, Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants, and Their War, page 464

Regarding this human angle, DeMille wrote, "I am sometimes accused of gingering up the Bible with large and lavish infusions of sex and violence. I can only wonder if my accusers have ever read certain parts of the Bible."

2007, J. Stephen Lang, The Bible on the Big Screen: A Guide from Silent Films to Today's Movies

If he had been gingered, he would have gone well. After I bought him, I gingered him.

1850, William Percivall, editor, The Veterinarian‎, page 594

Gingering is decided cruelty.

1884, The British Veterinary Journal‎, volume 18, page 426

There he is, moving in his best form, with the full knowledge that that long whip in his rear will once more be round his flanks, as it has often been before, if he fails to wake up when he comes out for a show—well gingered, too, we should say, and all life and action.

1893, Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes‎, volume 60, page 161

These steps may not be immediately popular, but the society may have to bear with them until they succeed in gingering renewed interest and pride in the language so chosen.

2002, K. K. Prah, Rehabilitating African Languages

In conclusion, intensive campaigns should be done in relation to gingering the nomads' interest in education, improve their interaction with neighbours and encourage them to start considering a more sedentary pastoral life.

2006, Africa e Mediterraneo: cultura, politica, economia, società

I attended their concert first, so that was what gingered me to continue this school.

2015, “19-year-old student at a music school in Nigeria”, in BBC Newshour

They, the Rabbis, for better or for worse, were very ginger with this question.

2006, John W. McGinley, About the King’s Choice to Build His Palace Right on Top of a Dunghill: (Or, How to Conceptualize Jewishly), Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, page 540

After a very ginger landing, everyone aboard was able to see up close how lucky they had been to reach base.

2007, Flypast

Moving very slowly, taking extremely ginger steps, the woman felt beads of sweat dripping down from her body.

2009, Franklin Newman, The Prophetess of Bromfryel: The Knights of Callistor, page 509

Spring training began on Christmas Day, when my cousin and I gingered onto the lot behind the fire station to try out our new spikes.

1972 September 1, Paul Hemphill, “I Gotta Let the Kid Go”, in Life, volume 73, number 9, page 42

She gingered her way into the river and timidly splashed into its waters.

1979, Bill Marshall, Bukom, Longman, page 83

I gingered my hands into my grandfather’s [boxing] gloves.

1992, Donald Anderson, “My Name Is Stephen Mann”, in Aethlon, University of Iowa Press, published 2001, page 11

Takin’ good care not to topple into the depths o’ this muddy ol’ ooze, I gingered my way across the muddy path along the river’s edge until I arrived at that big hat.

2009, Montana Kid Hammer, The Old West Adventures of Ornery and Slim: The Partnership, AuthorHouse, page 47