Meanings
plural gingerphobes
- Someone suffering from gingerphobia.
You are a gingerphobe!
2009 December 9, MartinS, “Re Maggie Jones - sad news”, in rec.arts.tv.uk.coronation-st (Usenet)2 more examples
If you're a gingerphobe and you don't like us We'll stand up to the fight if you wanna fight us But if you cut yourself you might catch gingervitis So maybe you should shut your fucking mouth
2012 October 4, Amnesty International, The Very Best of The Secret Policeman's Ball, Canongate Books, →ISBNThe only reason I can imagine that she included the color of Clark's hair is because she wanted to make it clear that she's not a gingerphobe.
2017 March 7, Jenny Baranick, Sarah Palin's Expert Guide to Good Grammar: What You Can Learn from Someone Who Doesn't Know Right from Write, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN
Origin
- Proto-Dravidian*wēr
- Sauraseni Prakrit𑀲𑀺𑀁𑀕𑀺𑀯𑁂𑀭 (siṃgivera)
- Ancient Greekζιγγίβερις (zingíberis)
- Latinzingiberi
- Late Latingingiber
- Proto-West Germanic*gingiberō
- Old Englishgingifer
- Old Frenchgingembreinflu.
- Middle Englishgingivere
- Middle Englishgingere
- Englishginger
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰógʷos
- Proto-Hellenic*pʰógʷos
- Ancient Greekφόβος (phóbos)
- Englishgingerphobe
Cite this entry
gingerphobe. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gingerphobe
“gingerphobe.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gingerphobe. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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