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gingerbread Definition

gin·ger·bread (jin′jər bred′)

noun

    1. a cake flavored with ginger and molasses
    2. a kind of cookie cut from a rolled-out dough flavored with ginger and molasses
  2. showy ornamentation, as gaudy or fancy carvings on furniture, gables, etc.

Etymology: ME ginge bred, altered (after bred, bread) < gingebras, preserved ginger, ginger pudding < OFr gingembraz < gingibre < ML gingiber, ginger

adjective

cheap and showy; gaudy

gingerbread Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • eat: There is no charge for watching Tasty Towers or for eating gingerbread.

Adjective modifier

  • home-baked: Click Here For More Information... Gingerbread House Mold Make your home-baked gingerbread into your own fairy tale Gingerbread House.
  • sticky: TRY their sticky organic gingerbread, you'll soon be addicted.

Modifies a noun

  • recipe: The teacher gave the pupils a gingerbread men recipe sheet.
  • cottage: Gingerbread Cottage is the ideal base for exploring unspoiled Derbyshire.
  • man: Hardback 63 pages, 2001 £ 12.99 The Gingerbread Man, for younger children Illustrated by Diana Mayo.
  • sheet: The teacher gave the pupils a gingerbread men recipe sheet.
  • house: A witch who lives in a gingerbread house wants to eat the two children who happen to visit her home.
  • stall: In 1894, Oller brought suit against Pujol over the gingerbread stall incident and won.

Browse dictionary entries near gingerbread

  1. ‹ ginger jar
  2. ‹ ginger group
  3. ‹ ginger beer
  4. ‹ ginger ale
  5. ‹ ginger
  6. ‹ gingelli
  7. ‹ Gina
  8. ‹ gin rummy
  9. ‹ gin mill
  10. ‹ gin
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  7. gingivitis ›
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