gingery

Somewhat reddish or reddish-brown in colour (especially of hair or skin colouring).

gingery hair / freckles; the gingery fur of a fox

The very learned gentleman […] has cooled the natural heat of his gingery complexion in pools and fountains of law […]

Having reddish-brown hair. (of a person)

The red-haired pilgrim was beside himself with the thought that at least this poor Kurtz had been properly revenged. […] He positively danced, the bloodthirsty little gingery beggar.

Having a flavour or aroma of the spice ginger; containing that spice.

a gingery broth / stir-fry

Nostalgic, gingery hints of Spanish geranium wafted in her mother’s room […]

Energetic, vigorous, lively, peppy, zippy.

The boys have made themselves very popular with the fans here, because a good, gingery gaffe is played all the time, regardless of the score.

The recent showing of the locals has been a big disappointment to the fans, the team playing loosely, and the gingery coaching and hustling of Hulswitt has been the only redeeming feature.

Ginger, inhibited, cautious.

I walked slowly, and with an assumed air of careless indifference. I counterfeited the Comanche walk—not that bold free port—the magnificent and inimitable stride, so characteristic of Chippewa and Shawano, of Huron and Iroquois—but the shuffling gingery step of an English jockey; for such in reality is the gait of the Comanche Indian when afoot.

They are unanimously shy of Ade in their horn-books for sophomores, and they are gingery in their praise of him in their innumerable review articles.