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ging

noun
/ˈɡɪŋ//d͡ʒɪnd͡ʒ/

Etymology

From Middle English gyng, gynge, genge, from Old English genge (“a troop, privy, company, retinue”), from Old Norse gengi, from Proto-Germanic *gangiją (“pace, walk”). Cognate with Middle Low German gink (“a going, turn, way”), Old Norse gengi (“accompaniment, entourage, help”), Icelandic gengi (“rate”). Related to Old English gengan (“to go”), from Proto-Germanic *gangijaną (“to go”). More at gang.

  1. derived from *gangiją✻
  2. derived from gengi
  3. inherited from genge
  4. inherited from gyng

Definitions

  1. A company

    A company; troop; a gang.

    • There is a knot, a ging, a pack, a conspiracy againſt me.
    • Proceeding further, I am met vvith a vvhole ging of vvords and phraſes not mine, for he hath maim'd them, and like a ſlye depraver mangl'd them in this his vvicked Limbo, vvorſe then the ghoſt of Deiphobus appear'd to his friend Æneas.

  2. A ‘shanghai’, or handheld catapult.

    • I put a stone in the ging and let fly.

  3. A redhead, a ginger-haired person

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A diminutive of the female given names Ginger and Virginia.

      • Her taste for philosophical conundrums having been whetted rather than sated by decades of nothing to do, Ging often likes to speculate at length on whether we’re an incarnation that became a refuge, or a refuge that became an incarnation.

    2. A surname from Irish.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA