ginger = "extremely careful"

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There is a porn star who goes by the name Ginger Lee.

Page Stephens


> [Original Message]
> From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Date: 12/11/2006 1:13:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [ADS-L] ginger = "extremely careful"
>
> Jon, are you implying that, e.g. "daily," as in "The _Daily_ Show" is
> *not* an adverb? ;-)
>
> From the Judge Mathis Show:
>
> "First, I waited a week, then I waited a whole 'nother week [before
> tossing out my former tenant's property]."
>
> The judge himself states that "I got the whole alphabet after me" is
> BE slang for "I'm in big trouble," i.e. "The ATF, the IRS, the FBI,
> the PD, etc. are all after me."
>
> -Wilson
>
> On 12/11/06, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > As engineers laid explosives to implode a factory chimney, Fox anchor
John Scott, a Coloradan, comments that "there's some very ginger work going
on there."
> >
> >   OED calls this sense of "ginger" (1600, 1675, 1882) "Obs. exc. dial."
This is the first time I can recall hearing a living person say it, but if
you think "gingerly" _must_ be an adverb because it ends in  "-ly," it
makes perfect sense.
> >
> >   Not that many Americans say "gingerly."
> >
> >   JL
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