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English
Etymology
From ginger + -phobia.
Noun
gingerphobia (uncountable)
- (UK, informal) Fear, dislike, or hatred of people with red hair.
2005 July 22, Ian Bell, “Those who pay the PR rarely get to call a tune as perfect as this one”, in The Herald, Glasgow:Last night, Tate staged a nice running gag on racism by creating a world in which the majority had an irrational hatred of "gingers", meaning redheads. Women of that persuasion were forced to hide from gingerphobia in Russet Lodge, a "ginger refuge".
2013 January 9, Ed West, “Why is gingerism so common in Britain?”, in The Telegraph:Although Western civilisation needs new categories of thought-crime like a hole in the head, the idea of gingerphobia as a hate crime is probably no more absurd than many other categories.
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