gingerbready

noun

1. 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.

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

adjective