GINGERBREAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gingerbread mean? 

• GINGERBREAD (noun)
  The noun GINGERBREAD has 1 sense:

1. cake flavored with ginger

  Familiarity information: GINGERBREAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GINGERBREAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cake flavored with ginger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("gingerbread" is a kind of...):

cake (baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat)

 Context examples 

Mr. Dick was very partial to gingerbread.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Tragedies and cravats, poetry and pickles, garden seeds and long letters, music and gingerbread, rubbers, invitations, scoldings, and puppies.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

At Hand Cross we caught a glimpse of the old landlord, hurrying out with his gin and his gingerbread; but the dip of the ground was downwards now, and away we flew as fast as eight gallant hoofs could take us.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Much could not be hoped from the traffic of even the busiest part of Highbury;—Mr. Perry walking hastily by, Mr. William Cox letting himself in at the office-door, Mr. Cole's carriage-horses returning from exercise, or a stray letter-boy on an obstinate mule, were the liveliest objects she could presume to expect; and when her eyes fell only on the butcher with his tray, a tidy old woman travelling homewards from shop with her full basket, two curs quarrelling over a dirty bone, and a string of dawdling children round the baker's little bow-window eyeing the gingerbread, she knew she had no reason to complain, and was amused enough; quite enough still to stand at the door.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Beth's new 'ink bib' was capital, and Hannah's box of hard gingerbread will be a treasure.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

One of these, a little dry man, sitting by himself, who wore a stiff brown wig that looked as if it were made of gingerbread, rose to receive my aunt, and show us into Mr. Spenlow's room.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Don't try too many messes, Jo, for you can't make anything but gingerbread and molasses candy fit to eat.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Jo remembered the kind old gentleman, who used to let her build railroads and bridges with his big dictionaries, tell her stories about queer pictures in his Latin books, and buy her cards of gingerbread whenever he met her in the street.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

One small child was poking turtles with Amy's cherished parasol, a second was eating gingerbread over Jo's best bonnet, and a third playing ball with her gloves, but all were enjoying themselves, and when Jo collected her damaged property to go, her escort accompanied her, begging her to come again, It was such fun to hear about Laurie's larks.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

When I lost sight of Father's dear old face, I felt a trifle blue, and might have shed a briny drop or two, if an Irish lady with four small children, all crying more or less, hadn't diverted my mind, for I amused myself by dropping gingerbread nuts over the seat every time they opened their mouths to roar.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)