was it Gidget who said ‘the ginchiest”?
According to every source I’ve found, including the Oxford English Dictionary, “ginchy” barely made it under the wire as 1950s slang. It seems to have first been used in a wildly popular 1959 song called “Kookie Kookie — Lend Me Your Comb,”
Apparently “ginchy” was also associated with the character of Gidget...
Gidget’s use of “ginchy” must have come in the later books, movies and TV show, since Kookie’s use of the word apparently is the first recorded use.
The reference comes at the very end of the song.
In it's time, largely as a result of the popularity of the TV show, the song was a somewhat iconic symbol of the times.
I'm sorry - you had to be alive at the time...
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