Ging

See also: ging and gīng

English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɪnd͡ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪndʒ

Proper noun

Ging

1. (hypocoristic) A diminutive of the female given names Ginger and Virginia.
   • 1999, Susan Butler, East to the Dawn‎^[1]:

     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 Amelia who is holding the ball.

   • 2003, Philip Furia, Skylark‎^[2]:

     But while Crosby was their first main topic of conversation, Johnny and Ginger soon began to have the experiences that draw people closer together. [...] “For years,” Mercer said, “anytime anything went wrong, Ging and I would just look at each other and say ‘Borough Hall!’ and think of that poor man who thought he was on his way to Harlem.”

   • 2004, Tom Carson, Gilligan's Wake‎^[3]:

     Her taste for philosophical conundrums having been whetted rather than sated by decades of nothing to do, Ging often likes to speculate at length on whether we’re an incarnation that became a refuge, or a refuge that became an incarnation.

Etymology 2

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

Proper noun

Ging (plural Gings)

1. A surname from Irish.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Ging is the 41959^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 518 individuals. Ging is most common among White (85.33%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Ging”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 45.

Anagrams

• GIGN