ginchy
English
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[edit]ginchy (comparative ginchier, superlative ginchiest)
- (slang, dated) Awesome, cool, excellent.
- Wow, those shoes are the ginchiest!
- 1961, Stanton Delaplane, And How She Grew, Coward-McCann, page 187:
- You should carry a few silver dollars—they are the ginchiest.
- 2005, John Darling, Woman in Black, page 159:
- Anyway, it was ginchy while it lasted.
- 2013, Kristan Lawson, Anneli Rufus, California Babylon:
- Its awninged entrance was next door to “Dino's Lodge,” where the hair-obsessed Kookie parked cars. The actual building used in those shots is long gone. But anyone making the ginchy pilgrimage will find a series of sidewalk tiles here solemnly decreeing that, yes, 77 Sunset Strip was filmed on this site.
- Leery; wary or nervous.
- I got very ginchy about being left alone with Eileen, very hopeful and very anxious both at once.
- 2010, Lawrence Block, Hit and Run:
- Except somehow he did know, just as he'd somehow known all along that this was a setup. And maybe that was why he'd been so ginchy in Albuquerque, all those months ago.