ginge
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Shortening.
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ginge (comparative more ginge, superlative most ginge)
Noun[edit]
ginge (plural ginges)
- (slang, derogatory) A red-haired person.
- 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
- “Listen, Ginge,” continued the bully. “We don’t want you in our bogs. You hear? Puttin’ off all the customers by talking to yerself like some nutter…”
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ginge
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ginge
- Alternative form of yong
Swedish[edit]
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ginge
- (dated) past subjunctive of gå
- 1669-1670, Lasse Lucidor, Skulle jag sörja, då vore jag tokot
- Skulle jag sörja, då wore Jag tokot,
fast än thet ginge mig aldrig så slätt […]- Were I to mourn, I'd be mad,
although it never would go so smoothly for me […]
- Were I to mourn, I'd be mad,
- 1907, Selma Lagerlöf, chapter 26, in Nils Holgerssons underbara resa:
- En mängd forsar och fall finns där nog, så att det ginge an att bygga hur många kvarnar som helst
- There are probably enough rapids and falls there, that it'd be possible to build as many mills as one might want.
- 1917 translation, the Bible, 1 Corinthians, 11:31
- Om vi ginge till doms med oss själva, så bleve vi icke dömda.
- For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
- 1669-1670, Lasse Lucidor, Skulle jag sörja, då vore jag tokot
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