| 单词 | ginger cake |
| 释义 | > as lemmasginger cake ginger cake n. a cake flavoured with ginger; (in early use) gingerbread, esp. in the form of a cake. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > gingerbread gingerbreada1450 dry leach1570 pepper-gingerbread1598 pepper bread1611 gingerbread nut1734 ginger cake1758 ginger nut1786 parkin1800 parliament gingerbread1809 parliament1812 parliament cake1818 parley1825 spice-nut1829 Pfefferkuchen1856 Hoosier cake1859 1758 ‘Claudero’ Poems Sundry Occasions 26 No more will she the Ginger Cake, After the Dram unto you break. 1844 W. T. Thompson Major Jones's Courtship (ed. 2) x. 87 I'm jest as good for old Miss Stallinses consent as a thrip is for a ginger cake. 1896 J. C. Harris Sister Jane 351 I'll bet a thrip to a ginger-cake that Mary got you in a corner out there in the garden and asked you to marry her. 1918 W. Faulkner Let. 9 Sept. in Thinking of Home (1992) 99 The ginger cake sounds good, and the oatmeal cookies. 1992 A. Bell tr. M. Toussaint-Samat Hist. Food i. 34 Molasses or black treacle began to replace honey around the Restoration period, and gingerbread gradually became more like the ginger cake of today. < as lemmas |
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