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Hot Head – fiery temper ascribed to redheads.Cheeto-head – hair the same color as a carrot or orange.Ginger Ninja – Rhyming slang – redhead.Ginger Nut – the name of a ginger cookie popular in Britain which is burnt orange in color.Fiery redhead – hair the color of fire.Red riding hood – a fairytale girl who wears a cape with a red hood.Robin – red as the robin’s breast (it’s actually orange).

Freckles – referring to the matching freckles that accompany red hair.‘Roy’ is descended from the Gaelic word ‘ruadh’ or red. Highlander – referring to Rob Roy MacGregor, a famous Scottish redheaded warrior.Well, enough of this doom and gloom! Gingers are lustful, so we hear! Well, all I can say to that is if they are so lustful why aren’t there more of them? Myths about Gingers There was a move afoot at one stage to put ‘Gingerism’ on the same par as racism and sexism as a hate crime since people have been very badly wounded in anti-ginger attacks.Īlso, people have even committed suicide because of bullying. Stereotypes about RedheadsĪpparently, redheads have bad tempers! Well, who can blame them? If I were subject to the amount of abuse they have to endure on a daily basis, I might get a bit miffed myself. Redheads, for some reason, are more likely to be left-handed! Look at a group of them and see all the southpaws.The minute a ray of sunshine touches that pale, freckled skin, it turns a fetching shade of lobster red and burns to a crisp! Redheads -BRRRR- feel the cold more, but don’t fare well in the heat either.It also doesn’t fade to gray, just gradually turns to pink, then to pristine snow white! Redheads have far fewer hairs on their heads than the rest of us, but each hair shaft is much, much thicker.Redheads feel less pain, except in their teeth (an even better reason not to go to the dentist!) but they need more anesthetic than non-gingers for an operation.Do you know that red-headed women have sex more often than their blonde and brunette sisters? Well, they are, after all, in my humble opinion, more beautiful!.The ‘ginger’ appellation first referred to the “hair of a light sand color,” but gradually morphed into the meaning it has today. It also approximates the color of a ginger root, which isn’t quite so orange. Ginger was first coined in a sporting magazine in 1797 and was first used to describe the color of a fighting cockerel, which was an orange-sandy color, much like a ginger cat.