ging

From Middle English gyng, gynge, genge, from Old English genge (“a troop, privy, company, retinue”), from Old Norse gengi, from Proto-Germanic *gangiją (“pace, walk”). Cognate with Middle Low German gink (“a going, turn, way”), Old Norse gengi (“accompaniment, entourage, help”), Icelandic gengi (“rate”). Related to Old English gengan (“to go”), from Proto-Germanic *gangijaną (“to go”). More at gang.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

ging (plural gings)

1. (obsolete) A company; troop; a gang.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The Merry VViues of VVindsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:

     There is a knot, a ging, a pack, a conspiracy against me.

Perhaps onomatopoeic.

ging (plural gings)

1. (Australia) A ‘shanghai’, or handheld catapult. [from 20th c.]
   • 1965, Mudrooroo, Wild Cat Falling, HarperCollins 2001, p. 13:

     I put a stone in the ging and let fly.

From ginger.

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɪnd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -ɪndʒ

ging (plural gings)

1. (informal) A redhead, a ginger-haired person

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

ging

1. singular past indicative of gaan

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• IPA^(key): /ɡɯŋ/

ging

1. nose, snot, mucus

• gingkol
• gingnabak
• gingriking
• gingsep
• gingsi
• gingsika
• gingti
• gingting

• Burling, R. (2003) The Language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo) Vol. II: The Lexicon‎, Bangladesh: University of Michigan
• Mason, M.C. (1904) , English-Garo Dictionary, Mittal Publications, New Delhi, India
• Garo-Hindi-English Learners' Dictionary, North-Eastern Hill University Publications, Shillong

• gieng (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /ɡɪŋ/, (archaic) /ɡiːŋ/

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ging

1. first/third-person singular preterite of gehen

• IPA^(key): /ɟɪɲ/

ging f (genitive singular ginge, nominative plural gingeacha)

1. Ulster form of ding (“wedge”)

• Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 43.

ging

1. Alternative form of genge (“band”)

ging

1. Alternative form of yong