[U]
1 the root of the ginger plant used in cooking as a spice:
a teaspoon of ground ginger * (BrE) ginger biscuits
2 a light brownish-orange colour
adjective (BrE) light brownish-orange in colour:
ginger hair * a ginger cat
Part of speech: verb
PHRASALVERBS
ginger sth/sb<->up (BrE) to make sth/sb more active or exciting
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for ginger is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is ginger a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, ginger is tagged as noun.
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