gingerbready

Variant of gingerbread

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
  1. showy ornamentation, as gaudy or fancy carvings on furniture, gables, etc.

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

adjective

cheap and showy; gaudy
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