Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small cake flavored with ginger and sweetened with molasses.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK A hard
biscuit , flavoured with powderedginger , often dunked in tea
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Examples
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I especially love gingernut cookies and Fulghum are favourites!
Smart and Spicy, Cookie bhags 2008
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Umm - Apple and gingernut pie - that seems important.
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I wouldn't throw the blonde one out of bed, but the gingernut has a better face.
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UK, Brazil, Canada, Western Europe lead twitter use #ona09 gingernut come on Rio!!! that may not go down too well in some areas of south western Europe, but as the Brazilians would day ... me importa um caralho
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009
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I wouldn't throw the blonde one out of bed, but the gingernut has a better face.
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Maybe she’d make him a cuppa, tomorrow morning, and not complain when he dunked a gingernut in it.
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This was rather shocking to me at first because I didn't think I was a ginger fan, but then I started thinking of my favorite New Zealand treats: gingernut biscuits cookies) and ginger crunch, which my fellow Kiwi, Bron, wrote about here).
Archive 2007-02-01 Shaun 2007
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This was rather shocking to me at first because I didn't think I was a ginger fan, but then I started thinking of my favorite New Zealand treats: gingernut biscuits cookies) and ginger crunch, which my fellow Kiwi, Bron, wrote about here).
Stem Ginger and Spice Ice Cream Shaun 2007
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She really is an irritating, gingernut, and a pointless fucker.
Guy Fawkes' blog 2009
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James "when he disputed any of her sovereign orders in the kitchen, and would sometimes pursue him with uplifted rolling-pin and floury hands when he had snatched a gingernut or cooky without suitable deference or supplication, and would declare, roundly, that there" never was sich an aggravatin 'young un. "
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various
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