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Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Cockney rhyming slang|derogatory Queer (ie, homosexual) (''short for'' '''ginger beer''', ''rhyming with'' '''queer''').
  • flavoured with ginger.
  • (''used to describe hair'') Of a reddish-brown colour.

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Noun:

  • Any plant of a genus (''Zingiber'', especially ''Zingiber officinale'') of tropical Asiatic and Polynesian herbs of a family (''Zingiberaceae'', the ginger family) with pungent aromatic rhizomes used as a condiment and as a stimulant and acarminative.
  • (colour) A reddish-brown colour/color.
  • colloquial|derogatory countable A person with reddish-brown hair.
  • The rhizome of this plant used as a spice either as it is or in dried powdered form.

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Proper noun:

  • a given name reserved for animals having ginger- or orange-coloured fur or feathers.
  • female|from=English.

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Verb:

  • to treat with care

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