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ginger

1. n. a root vegetable used as a spice. It has a bittersweet, aromatic flavour.
2. adj. anything flavoured with ginger.
3. n./adj. a yellowish-brown colour, tending to orange.
4. adj. a colloquial term used to describe people with red hair, who also tend to have pale skin tone and freckles.
5. adj. (pronounced with a hard initial 'g' and rhyming with singer) - as 4., but is used as a term of abuse. Sometimes spelt with an apostrophe after the second g to distinguish from the less offensive pronunciation.
6. (rare) adj. delicate.
1. Young ginger root has a milder flavour.
2. ginger biscuits, ginger beer, etc.
3. "The setting sun took on a gingerish hue."
4. "Daphne's hair was ginger, though she preferred to call it red."
5. "Oi! Ging'er! Too sunny for you?!" -- "Uh. Yes, actually."
6. "Fred crept gingerly towards Daphne."

Also: Compare red, 4. and 5. with black, negro and nigger.
by phantom oddity July 27, 2008
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ging'er

Term of abuse used against people with red hair. Pronounced with a hard first g and rhymes with singer.

See also: ginger
"Oi! Ging'er! Too sunny for you" -- "Uh. Yes, actually."
by phantom oddity July 24, 2008
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domain

An area, region or place that usually belongs to someone; i.e. territory.
'The sewer is the domain of the rat.'

'urbandictionary.com is an Internet domain signifying the on-line territory of those who run the Urban Dictionary.'
by phantom oddity November 3, 2005
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tertiary

Used to describe something that is third in a list or classification system.

Follows on from primary and secondary.
'Tertiary education' in most countries refers to college or university education.
by phantom oddity October 13, 2005
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dupe

1. n. A duplicate
(rarely) v. To duplicate something

2. To deliberately confuse or scam someone
1. n.: There are too many dupes on UD.
* v.: The idiot was bored so he duped someone else's definition and added some offensive words.

2. The idiot was easily duped out of his cash.
by phantom oddity October 8, 2004
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cymru

The Welsh-language word for the country of Wales.

Variants: Gymru, Nghymru.
The celtic names for Cornwall, Wales, Ireland and Scotland were Cerniw, Cymru, Eire and Alba.
by phantom oddity October 5, 2004
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koof

To 'fuck' something in the sense of breaking or destroying, rather than of copulating with it.

Backslang of fook - a corruption of fuck.

Not to be confused with queef.
Fred totally koofed his van by driving it into a wall.
by phantom oddity August 12, 2004
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