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  • noun Plural form of gingernut.

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Examples

  • A whisky mac to cure a cold, a slab of parkin round the bonfire, a pocketful of gingernuts to cheer up a damp walk: all these things really ought to be available on the NHS from October to April.

    How to cook perfect ginger cake 2012

  • I wonder how many ACPO have been “coppers” and how many were simply gingernuts? on December 7, 2006 at 5: 09 pm | Reply GeneralMotorsPartsCo

    Ain’t it strange, Dr Dog. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2006

  • He thought it should be a pleasant life enough, driving along the roads every evening to deliver milk, if he had warm gloves and a fat bag of gingernuts in his pocket to eat from.

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

  • He thought it should be a pleasant life enough, driving along the roads every evening to deliver milk, if he had warm gloves and a fat bag of gingernuts in his pocket to eat from.

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922

  • He thought it should be a pleasant life enough, driving along the roads every evening to deliver milk, if he had warm gloves and a fat bag of gingernuts in his pocket to eat from.

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922

  • He thought it should be a pleasant life enough, driving along the roads every evening to deliver milk, if he had warm gloves and a fat bag of gingernuts in his pocket to eat from.

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 1911

  • The poetic, soulful side of his mission was delicately indicated by a pale blue necktie, a clean shirt, and a small package of gingernuts, of which Flip was extravagantly fond.

    Flip, a California romance Bret Harte 1869

  • He lives, then, on gingernuts, thought I; never eats a dinner, properly speaking; he must be a vegetarian, then; but no, he never eats even vegetables, he eats nothing but gingernuts.

    Bartleby 1856

  • My mind then ran on in reveries concerning the probable effects upon the human constitution of living entirely on gingernuts.

    Bartleby 1856

  • Rolled away under his desk I found a blanket; under the empty grate, a blacking box and brush; on a chair, a tin basin, with soap and a ragged towel; in a newspaper a few crumbs of gingernuts and a morsel of cheese.

    Bartleby 1856

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