ginchy

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English

Etymology

From ginch +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

Adjective

ginchy (comparative ginchier, superlative ginchiest)

  1. (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.
  2. 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.