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Ging vs Ginn - What's the difference?

ging | ginn |

As a proper noun ging

is (hypocoristic) a diminutive of the female given names ginger and virginia.

As a noun ginn is

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As a verb ginn is

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ging

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A company; troop; a gang.
  • * Shakespeare
    • There is a knot, a ging , a pack, a conspiracy against me.
    ----

    ginn

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * {{quote-book, year=, author=The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. (1810-1897), title=Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=AZA'ZEL, one of the ginn or jinn, all of whom were made of "smokeless fire," that is, the fire of the Simoom. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1886, author=Andrew Lang, title=In the Wrong Paradise, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=There also were the "maids of modest glances," previously indifferent to the wooing "of man or ginn ." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=, author=Sax Rohmer (1883-1959), title=The Quest of the Sacred Slipper, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I accordingly assumed Hassan to be a myth--a first cousin to the ginn . }}

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=, author=Charles Reade (1814-1884) and Dion Boucicault (1820-1890), title=Foul Play, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=You ginn it us hot--you did. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1912, author=Lawrence J. Burpee, title=Humour of the North, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Well, the doctor axed me to vote for his son, and I just up and told him I would, only my relation was candidating also; but ginn him my hand and promise I would be neuter. }} ----