英和和英

語源

From the idea of gingering a horse to make it seem more lively, or adding ginger to spice up a food or beverage.

発音

• 韻: -uːp

名詞

ginger group (plural ginger groups)

1. A group adding impetus or spirit on a particular topic, especially within a political party or other organization.
   • 1918, Alfred Hopkinson, chapter 5, in Rebuilding Britain: A Survey of Problems of Reconstruction after the World War‎, page 44:

     Would not a German Minister of Propaganda, or a German Committee on War Aims, wishing to stimulate active support for the War among the German masses, be well advised to circulate some of the resolutions that have been passed by certain bodies in England and scatter them broadcast in Central Europe, with a few careful glosses and comments to point the moral? They would be a valuable asset for a German “ginger group.”

   • 1989, Shashi Tharoor, chapter 102, in The Great Indian Novel‎, page 344:

     There Drona’s son became a one-man ginger group, loudly advocating a more socialist direction to party policy.

   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 394:

     The first local ginger group came into existence in 1796, when typhus among cotton-mill employees led public-spirited Manchester physicians to organise an ad hoc health board.