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ging¹

  • /ˈɡɪŋ/

Rhymes with -ɪŋ

Where it comes from

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.

noun gings

  1. obsolete A company; troop; a gang. There is a knot, a ging, a pack, a conspiracy againſt me.

ging²

Where it comes from

Perhaps onomatopoeic.

noun gings

  1. Australia A ‘shanghai’, or handheld catapult. I put a stone in the ging and let fly.

ging³

  • /d͡ʒɪnd͡ʒ/

Rhymes with -ɪndʒ

Where it comes from

From ginger.

noun gings

  1. informal A redhead, a ginger-haired person

Ging⁴

  • /d͡ʒɪnd͡ʒ/

Rhymes with -ɪndʒ

Where it comes from

Clipped form of Ginger, itself sometimes a nickname for Virginia.

proper noun

  1. familiar A diminutive of the female given names Ginger and Virginia. Amelia thereupon taught Ginger Park and Lucy. [...] In one picture Amelia and three friends—Katherine Dolan (referred to as Dolan), Lucy (Toot), Virginia Park (Ging) are lying on their stomachs, their chins cupped in their hands, staring at the camera either before or after a basketball game; it is

Ging⁵

Where it comes from

From a shortened Anglicized form of Irish Mac Fhionn, whence McGinn.

proper noun Gings

  1. A surname from Irish.

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@misc{ging_2026,
  title = {ging},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ging},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}