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/dʒˈɪndʒər eɪl/ Listen

noun

Ginger n.

(Bot.) A plant of the genus Zingiber, of the East and West Indies. The species most known is Zingiber officinale.

The hot and spicy rootstock of Zingiber officinale, which is much used in cookery and in medicine.

Ginger ale

(a)

a soft drink flavored with ginger and carbonated.

(a)

See ginger beer, below.

Ginger beer or Ginger ale, a mild beer impregnated with ginger.

Ginger cordial, a liquor made from ginger, raisins, lemon rind, and water, and sometimes whisky or brandy.

Ginger pop. See Ginger ale (above).

Ginger wine, wine impregnated with ginger.

Wild ginger (Bot.), an American herb (Asarum Canadense) with two reniform leaves and a long, cordlike rootstock which has a strong taste of ginger.

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"Ginger ale" Quotes from Famous Books

... wholeheartedly. "Poor Uncle John! He won't even allow grape juice or ginger ale in his house. They came because they were afraid little Clara might catch the measles. She's very delicate, and there's such an epidemic of measles among the children over in Dayton the schools had to be closed. Uncle John got so worried that last night he dreamed about ...

— Penrod • Booth Tarkington

... laid in her new friend's room—pressed beef, potato salad, stewed prunes, and ginger ale. Martin and the grey girl talked. Thyme ate in silence, but though her eyes seemed fastened on her plate, she saw every glance that passed between them, heard every word they said. Those glances were not remarkable, ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... do, and he had prided himself on his strong head which enabled him to drink most men under the table. Whenever he encountered a chance shipmate, and there were many in San Francisco, he treated them and was treated in turn, as of old, but he ordered for himself root beer or ginger ale and good-naturedly endured their chaffing. And as they waxed maudlin he studied them, watching the beast rise and master them and thanking God that he was no longer as they. They had their limitations to forget, and when ...

— Martin Eden • Jack London

... at the corner, his eyes wandering over the multicoloured hoardings. Cantrell and Cochrane's Ginger Ale (Aromatic). Clery's Summer Sale. No, he's going on straight. Hello. Leah tonight. Mrs Bandmann Palmer. Like to see her again in that. Hamlet she played last night. Male impersonator. Perhaps he was a woman. Why Ophelia committed suicide. Poor papa! How he used to talk of Kate Bateman in that. ...

— Ulysses • James Joyce

... unaccountable things sometimes, are they not? Bunty said it was because she was always popping and jerking herself about like the celebrated wife of Punch, and there really is something in that. Her other name, "Fizz," is easier to understand; Pip used to say he never yet had seen the ginger ale that effervesced and bubbled and made the ...

— Seven Little Australians • Ethel Sybil Turner

... worry about that," said Harvey. "Ginger ale livens me up as much as anything. I used to simply pour the liquor down me. I had to give it up. It was getting the best of me. You should have seen the way I was carrying on out there ...

— What's-His-Name • George Barr McCutcheon

... the scientists attired only in shorts, cooling off over long, cold drinks. They accepted glasses of iced ginger ale and told the scientists of ...

— The Wailing Octopus • Harold Leland Goodwin