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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!

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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  • 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

  • honest
    Lv 5
    1 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

  • Anonymous
    1 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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  • Jay
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    A ginger=red hair, pale skin, and freckles.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    its from that show south park. they stole the word from the british since the british nickname for a redhead is ginger

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Brittish slang term used for redheads.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    red head on 60's show Giligans Island

  • ?
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    Red haired person White or Black

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    pale azz white wit red hurr and frecklez

    satan's kin

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