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单词 ginger nut
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ginger nut
ginger nut n. British (a) a hard sweet biscuit strongly flavoured with ginger; (in early use also) a small ginger-flavoured cake, a round piece of gingerbread (cf. nut n.1 11); (b) (slang) a red-haired person.
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parliament1812
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1786 J. Parke et al. Lyric Wks. Horace 316 Thy death we must deplore, Thy ginger-nuts and butter-bunns bewail.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxviii. 276 Which a good aunt of mine had filled with ginger-nuts two years before.
1903 Bath Chron. 28 May 6/6 Defendant..alleged that Shell called him ‘Ginger-nut’, ‘Carroty-hair’, etc., while he had thrown stones at him.
1929 Cairns (Queensland) Post 5 Nov. 8/5 Why is a red-headed person never in want of a biscuit? Because he has a ginger nut always!
1930 A. Ransome Swallows & Amazons xxvii. 296 There were parkins and bath buns and rock cakes and ginger-nuts and chocolate biscuits.
1998 Zest Sept. 76/1 As I'm a natural redhead I used to get called ‘ginger nut’ at school.
2016 Daily Star (Nexis) 5 Feb. 8 A shortage of ginger nuts, custard creams and cream crackers.
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