ging

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪŋ/

From Middle English gyng, gynge, genge, from Old English genge (“a troop, privy, company, retinue”), from Proto-Germanic *gangiją (“pace, walk”). Cognate with Middle Low German gink (“a going, turn, way”), Old Norse gengi (“accompaniment, entourage, help”), Icelandic gengi (“rate”). Related to Old English gengan (“to go”), from Proto-Germanic *gangijaną (“to go”). More at gang.

ging (plural gings)

1. (obsolete) A company; troop; a gang.
   • Shakespeare

     There is a knot, a ging, a pack, a conspiracy against me.

2. (dated) A slingshot

From ginger

ging (plural gings)

1. (informal) A redhead, a ginger-haired person

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

ging

1. singular past indicative of gaan

• gieng (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /ɡɪŋ/

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ging

1. First-person singular preterite of gehen.
2. Third-person singular preterite of gehen.

ging

1. Alternative form of yong

• “yong (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 June 2018.