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Definition of Ginger beer
1. Noun. Carbonated slightly alcoholic drink flavored with fermented ginger.
Definition of Ginger beer
1. Noun. A fermented but non-alcoholic drink flavoured with ginger. ¹
2. Noun. A glass or drink of ginger beer. ¹
3. Adjective. (Cockney rhyming slang usually used in the shortened form '''ginger''') queer (ie, homosexual). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ginger Beer
Literary usage of Ginger beer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1892)
"The ' Ginger-beer Plant,' and the Organisms composing it: a Contribution to the
Study of Fermentation-yeasts and Bacteria." By H. MARSHALL WARD, MA, FRS, ..."
2. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"Besides the matches and powder, dangerous enough in themselves, a ginger-beer
bottle, filled with gunpowder, and evidently intended to act as a shell, ..."
3. The Improved Housewife: Or Book of Receipts, with Engravings for Marketing by A. L. Webster (1855)
"ginger beer. Turn two gallons of boiling water on two pounds of brown sugar, ...
Quick ginger beer. To a pail of water, add two ounces of ginger, ..."
4. London labour and the London poor: Cyclopædia of the Condition and Earnings by Henry Mayhew (1861)
"Some of the stalls at which ginger-beer is sold —and it is the same at the
coal-sheds and the chandlers' shops—are adorned pictorially. ..."
5. Microbiology: A Text-book of Microörganisms, General and Applied by Charles E. Marshall (1921)
"ginger beer is an acid, slightly alcoholic beverage made by the fermentation of
a 10 to 20 per cent solution of sugar containing a few pieces of ginger root ..."
6. Dr. Chase's Family Physician, Farrier, Bee-keeper, and Second Receipt Book by Alvin Wood Chase (1874)
"ginger beer.—Water 10 gals.; nice lump sugar, 121 Ibs. ; bruised ginger root, £ Ib.
; the whites of 6 eggs ; yeast, 2 table-spoonfuls; lemons sliced, 10; ..."
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