more on "gen up" and "gin up"

[Baker, John]

        "Gin up," meaning to make or to put together, was a common informal expression in southcentral Kentucky.  The association with politics seems to go back a few years:  >> "We really want to gin up enough pressure so that the president will take the lead," said a House leadership aide.<<  Wall St. Journal, Jan. 2, 1984.  I note that the OED has "to gin her up," meaning to work things up, to make things 'hum', to work hard, from 1887.

John Baker