2007-01-05 05:41:49 · 6 answers · asked by Hannah 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Depends on where you are. If you are in the United States, it can be used to describe a redhead with pale skin and freckles. The term has been made especially wellknown since the airing of the episode of South Park having to do with Cartman's persecution of "ginger kids".
If you are in the UK, however, it often refers to gay men.
2007-01-05 06:05:38 · answer #1 · answered by jeibear 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My BF teases me all the time about being a ginger and I don't even have red hair but I do have a lot of freckles and am a little pale. But yea red head w/ freckles and pale skin.
2007-01-05 05:51:05 · answer #2 · answered by tiffantre 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In London it is rhyming slang for a homosexual man. It is a contraction of "ginger beer" rhyming with "queer". Other words meaning the same thing are are "horse" - Horse's hoof and "iron" iron roof" both or which rhyme with "poof".
2007-01-05 10:54:03 · answer #3 · answered by tentofield 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well let me correct you, first of all they do Not call some "a" ginger! The expression is: "full of ginger". That means the person,usually a small child, is full of "energy". Another expression related in the same sense, "full of vinegar". That is usually referring to a child, and its meaning is similar to "full of ginger", only instead of being "sweat" and "energetic", the child displays "aggression" so the term "full of vinegar", relates to a child that is constantly into "things and/or trouble"! Hope that helps you out and you understand. These expressions are "very" old English!
2007-01-05 05:56:20 · answer #4 · answered by peaches 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
In Britain, it is Cockney slang for "gay" or "queer", so it depends on the context.
2007-01-05 06:07:23 · answer #5 · answered by TX MadDog 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
red-head, freckles, and pale skin..
2007-01-05 05:48:45 · answer #6 · answered by Byakuya 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋