gingersnap
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of gingersnap
Explanation
A gingersnap is a crisp, spicy little cookie. Gingersnaps are perfect for dunking into milk, tea, or coffee. The gingersnap is also known as a "ginger nut," especially in the U.K. It's a sweet, brittle cookie that's flavored with plenty of ginger and often other spices like cinnamon, cloves, or nutmeg, and baked in small rounds. The predecessor to the gingersnap is the Cornish fairing, a little ginger biscuit that was sold at fairs in Cornwall as early as the 12th century.
Example Sentences
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This gourmet popcorn gift pack from Bremerton features four seasonal flavors: hot chocolate, sugar and spice, gingersnap and snowman crunch kettle corn.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
They blend into the overall flavor and provide sweetness much like molasses in a gingersnap.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2022
Think of it as: graham cracker meets gingersnap.
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2018
After helping ourselves to some warm gingersnap cookies served by one of the costumed guides, we headed out for our next encounter with a historic Canadian site.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2016
He kept looking and looking, and the colors he found were gingersnap and light fudge and dark fudge and acorn and butter rum and cinnamon and burnt orange.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
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