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gingerbread
(dʒɪndʒəʳbred)
uncountable noun
Gingerbread is a sweet biscuit or cookie that is flavoured with ginger. It is often made in the shape of a person or an animal.
gingerbread in British English
(ˈdʒɪndʒəˌbrɛd)
noun
1.
a moist brown cake, flavoured with ginger and treacle or syrup
2.
a.
a rolled biscuit, similarly flavoured, cut into various shapes and sometimes covered with icing
b.
(as modifier)
gingerbread man
3.
a.
an elaborate but unsubstantial ornamentation
b.
(as modifier)
gingerbread style of architecture
gingerbread in American English
(ˈdʒɪndʒərˌbrɛd)
noun
1.
a.
a cake flavored with ginger and molasses
b.
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.
adjective
3.
cheap and showy; gaudy
: also ˈgingerˌbreadyWord origin
ME ginge bred, altered (after bred, bread) < gingebras, preserved ginger, ginger pudding < OFr gingembraz < gingibre < ML gingiber, gingerMore idioms containinggingerbread
take the gilt off the gingerbread
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