gingerphobe

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noun

Someone suffering from gingerphobia.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

noungingerphobe (plural gingerphobes)

plural gingerphobes

  1. 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, →ISBN

    The 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

  1. Proto-Dravidian*wēr
  2. Sauraseni Prakrit𑀲𑀺𑀁𑀕𑀺𑀯𑁂𑀭 (siṃgivera)
  3. Ancient Greekζιγγίβερις (zingíberis)
  4. Latinzingiberi
  5. Late Latingingiber
  6. Proto-West Germanic*gingiberō
  7. Old Englishgingifer
  8. Old Frenchgingembreinflu.
  9. Middle Englishgingivere
  10. Middle Englishgingere
  11. Englishginger
  12. Proto-Indo-European*bʰógʷos
  13. Proto-Hellenic*pʰógʷos
  14. Ancient Greekφόβος (phóbos)
  15. Englishgingerphobe

From ginger + -phobe.

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APA

gingerphobe. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gingerphobe

MLA

“gingerphobe.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gingerphobe. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

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