ginchy

English

Etymology

From ginch +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪn(t)ʃi/

Adjective

ginchy (comparative ginchier, superlative ginchiest)

1. (slang, dated) Awesome, cool, excellent.

   Wow, those shoes are the ginchiest!

   • 1961, Stanton Delaplane, And How She Grew, Coward-McCann, page 187:

     You should carry a few silver dollars—they are the ginchiest.

   • 2005, John Darling, Woman in Black, page 159:

     Anyway, it was ginchy while it lasted.

   • 2013, Kristan Lawson, Anneli Rufus, California Babylon:

     Its awninged entrance was next door to “Dino's Lodge,” where the hair-obsessed Kookie parked cars. The actual building used in those shots is long gone. But anyone making the ginchy pilgrimage will find a series of sidewalk tiles here solemnly decreeing that, yes, 77 Sunset Strip was filmed on this site.

2. Leery; wary or nervous.

   I got very ginchy about being left alone with Eileen, very hopeful and very anxious both at once.

   • 2010, Lawrence Block, Hit and Run:

     Except somehow he did know, just as he'd somehow known all along that this was a setup. And maybe that was why he'd been so ginchy in Albuquerque, all those months ago.