gingerness

English

Etymology

From ginger +‎ -ness.

Noun

gingerness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being ginger (cautious)
2. The state, quality, or, condition of being a ginger (red-haired individual); redheadedness.
   • 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

     Gingernut was small and ginger too, though of course he didn’t wear braces. That smallness and gingerness was probably, deep down, why Zoe chose him out of the dozens of little balls of fluff snuggled up together behind the glass at the pet shop.

References

• “gingerness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• niggerness