gingerbread
gingerbread
Definition
gin·ger·bread (jin′jər bred′)
noun
- a cake flavored with ginger and molasses
- a kind of cookie cut from a rolled-out dough flavored with ginger and molasses
- 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.
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