'Gingerbread' definitions:
Definition of 'gingerbread'
From: WordNet
noun
Cake flavored with ginger
Definition of 'Gingerbread'
From: GCIDE
- Gingerbread \Gin"ger*bread`\, n. A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes. "Gingerbread that was full fine." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Gingerbread tree (Bot.), the doom palm; -- so called from the resemblance of its fruit to gingerbread. See {Doom Palm}.
- Gingerbread work, ornamentation, in architecture or decoration, of a fantastic, trivial, or tawdry character. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'gingerbread'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- angel cake,
- angel food cake,
- baked Alaska,
- bedizenment,
- Boston cream pie,
- bravery,
- cake,
- cheesecake,
- chiffon,
- chocolate cake,
- clinquant,
- coffee cake,
- cupcake,
- duplication,
- duplication of effort,
- embellishment,
- expletive,
- extravagance,
- fat,
- featherbedding,
- festoons,
- filling,
- finery,
- folderol,
- foofaraw,
- frill,
- frilliness,
- frilling,
- frills,
- frills and furbelows,
- frippery,
- froufrou,
- fruitcake,
- fuss,
- gaiety,
- gaudery,
- genoise,
- gilding,
- gilt,
- honey cake,
- jelly roll,
- jumble,
- layer cake,
- luxury,
- marble cake,
- needlessness,
- ornamentation,
- overadornment,
- overlap,
- padding,
- paste,
- payroll padding,
- pinchbeck,
- pleonasm,
- pound cake,
- prolixity,
- redundance,
- redundancy,
- savarin,
- shortcake,
- spice cake,
- sponge cake,
- superfluity,
- superfluousness,
- tautology,
- tea cake,
- tinsel,
- trappings,
- trickery,
- trumpery,
- unnecessariness,
- verbosity,
- white cake,
- yellow cake