Ginger (disambiguation)
Appearance
The word ginger has many meanings:
Food and drink
- Ginger is Zingiber officinale or any other of the species of plant in the genus Zingiber or family Zingiberaceae.
- Japanese ginger, also known as myoga, is Zingiber mioga from the same genus.
- Chinese ginger, sometimes known as fingerroot, is Boesenbergia rotunda from the same family .
- Torch Ginger is the Ginger Flower Etlingera elatior, the buds of the showy pink flowers being an important ingredient in laksa.
- Wild ginger refers to any species from the unrelated Asarum genus, named so because their roots have a ginger-like taste.
- Ginger beer and ginger ale are ginger-flavored, carbonated soft drinks. "Ginger" is also a common name for a soft drink in Scotland, mainly thanks to Irn-Bru.
- Gingerbread is a cake flavored with powdered ginger root.
- Gingersnaps or Ginger biscuits are hard gingerbread cookies.
People
- Albert Goodwin (1887–1918), a labour activist nicknamed “Ginger” who led a strike at Trail, British Columbia, Canada
- Ginger Rogers (1911–1995), actress and dancer best known for movie pairings with Fred Astaire
- Ginger Baker (born 1935), percussionist for the British 1960s rock band Cream
- Ginger Lynn (born 1962), a B-movie actress and porn star
- Ginger (singer) (born 1964), the lead singer and guitarist of British rock band The Wildhearts
- Ginger Fish (born 1965), stage name of American drummer Kenneth Robert Wilson of the band Marilyn Manson
- Geri Halliwell (born 1972), "Ginger Spice" of the Spice Girls
- Ginger Reyes (born 1980), bassist for Smashing Pumpkins
- Ginger, the earliest known Egyptian mummy, dating back to approximately 3300 BC; so named for his red hair
Characters
- Ginger Grant, a character from Gilligan's Island
- Ginger, a chicken and main character from Chicken Run
- Ginger (comics), a regular character in the British children's comic, the Topper
- Ginger Foutley, main character in the children's animated series As Told By Ginger
- Ginger Meggs, main character in the Australian comic of the same name
- Captain Eddy “Ginger” Littlejohn, a minor character in Vile Bodies
- Ginger (The West Wing), a recurring character in The West Wing
- Ginger, a chestnut-colored mare in Black Beauty
Other Proper Names
- Ginger (band) is a Canadian rock band formed by former members of The Grapes of Wrath
- Ginger (album), a 1993 release by Speedy J
- Ginger, a 1992 cassette-only album by the Figgs
- Ginger Snaps (film), and its sequel Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed, Canadian horror films
- Hurricane Ginger (1971), an Atlantic hurricane that hit North Carolina
- Ginger (book), a children's book by Charlotte Voake
- The development code-name for the Segway Human Transporter was Ginger
Miscellaneous
- Ginger Productions - a TV productions company, owned by SMG plc.
- "Ginger hair" is a term used to describe a light reddish-brown or orangish hair color, along with pale skin and freckles.:
- A ginger is also a slang term for (in the UK sometimes pronounced derisively /giŋə/ rather than /dʒindʒə/) someone with red hair. Also, sometimes it is seen as a term of disparagement, or sometimes even a racial slur, for someone with redish hair.
- In British English a ginger cat is a domestic cat with an orange coat.
- Ginger in Cockney rhyming slang means queer, as in homosexual (from ginger beer).