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Can someone please tell me what a "ginger" is?
Okay, so everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY I know is calling people with red hair a "ginger." The only thing I know is that it means that they have red hair. And where did the whole term "ginger" come from, anyway? Please answer this as quickly as possible!
Much appreciated!
10 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
A red headed elf looking person: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Irish_teen_with_...
Source(s): . - 1 decade ago
If you are pale With freckles and red hair you will be called a ginger or a ranger...... Anyway, A Ginger- I mean the thing you can use to cook, is really irregular and different and looks kinda retarded. And people think that people with red hair are irregular, different and retarded!
Hope I helped
- honestLv 51 decade ago
A red head or carrot top.
Somebody with red/orange hair and pale skin. Sometimes freckles.
They normally have green, grey or brown, hazel eyes.
Like Archie.
Or grounds keeper Willie from the Simpsons
- Anonymous1 decade ago
People are ginger because of the color of their hair (red)! South park says that people with pale skin, freckles and red hair are gingers. People with just red hair are known as day walkers.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
its from that show south park. they stole the word from the british since the british nickname for a redhead is ginger
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Brittish slang term used for redheads.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
red head on 60's show Giligans Island
- Anonymous1 decade ago
pale azz white wit red hurr and frecklez
satan's kin