gingery

adjective5

1. •
   Somewhat reddish or reddish-brown in colour (especially of hair or skin colouring).

   • gingery hair / freckles; the gingery fur of a fox
2. •
   Having reddish-brown hair. (of a person)

   • The red-haired pilgrim was beside himself with the thought that at least this poor Kurtz had been properly revenged. […] He positively danced, the bloodthirsty little gingery beggar. — 1899
3. •
   Having a flavour or aroma of the spice ginger; containing that spice.

   • Nostalgic, gingery hints of Spanish geranium wafted in her mother’s room […] — 2005
4. •
   (old-fashioned) Energetic, vigorous, lively, peppy, zippy.

   • The boys have made themselves very popular with the fans here, because a good, gingery gaffe is played all the time, regardless of the score. — 1909
5. •
   (US, old-fashioned) Ginger, inhibited, cautious.

   • They are unanimously shy of Ade in their horn-books for sophomores, and they are gingery in their praise of him in their innumerable review articles. — 1919