Gingerbread

Noun

 * 1) A type of cake whose main flavouring is ginger and that is typically cut into human-shaped pieces called gingerbread men or built into house-shaped cakes called gingerbread houses.
 * 2)  A flamboyant Victorian-era architectural style.

Architecture

1. Showy ornamentation of a building in poor taste

Derived terms

 * cake and gingerbread
 * gingerbreaded
 * gingerbread house
 * gingerbread husband
 * gingerbread man
 * gingerbread-nut
 * gingerbread-office
 * gingerbread palm
 * gingerbread plum


 * gingerbread-trap
 * gingerbread tree
 * gingerbread work
 * gingerbready
 * knight of gingerbread
 * lord of gingerbread
 * man of gingerbread
 * pepper-gingerbread
 * take the gilt off the gingerbread

Thesaurus
Boston cream pie, angel cake, angel food cake, baked Alaska, bedizenment, 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

Alternative forms

 * gingebred (Scottish)

Etymology
From gingembras, gingimbrat, preserved ginger, from medieval Latin *gingi(m)br?t-um, (ginger that perhaps had a pharmaceutical use for some medicinal preparation), from medieval Latin gingiber, ginger. The third syllable was early confounded with bread, and the insertion of an r in the second syllable completed the semblance of a compound word.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 薑餅, 姜饼
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French: pain d'épice (au gingembre), pain d'épices (au gingembre)
 * German: Pfefferkuchen, Lebkuchen, Ingwerbrot


 * Japanese: ジンジャーブレッド
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: turtă dulce
 * Russian: пряник, имбирный пряник
 * Swedish: