gingerbread man
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- noun
- /ˈdʒɪndʒərˌbrɛd mæn/
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hombre de jengibre
- And then I've got some little gingerbread men that I'm going to put in.
- bake gingerbread men
- little gingerbread man
- make gingerbread men
This one is from Lois in the UK and it's for Benjamin and it's a gingerbread man and it showed up broken in half, but it'll be an easy fix.
- This one is from Lois in the UK and it's for Benjamin and it's a gingerbread man and it showed up broken in half, but it'll be an easy fix.
Examples
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By the way, I made your gingerbread men last year, and they are absolutely amazing.
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During the holidays, the family baked gingerbread men cookies.
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Look at that one gingerbread man I just got given.
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How gorgeous is the packaging with the cute gingerbread man on the cover?
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They had no children, so she decides to bake a gingerbread man.
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And I've also got these really cute little gingerbread man sprinkles.
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I contemplated putting googly eyes on the gingerbread man, but decided they were too big for his poor little head. :)
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But he knew if he wandered in there, his mother would rope him into rolling out cookie dough or decorating gingerbread men.
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For Ottie's breakfast I tried to get creative and I'd seen someone on Instagram do a little gingerbread man out of a crumpet and then put an egg in it.
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Look at that one gingerbread man I just got given.
Synonyms
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A sweet spiced cake or cookie flavored with ginger and honey
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from 'gingerbread' (a spiced baked sweet) + 'man' (a human figure): it refers to a gingerbread cookie shaped like a person. This compositional noun–noun compound follows common naming patterns (and has equivalents in other languages), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Gingerbread man comes from the simple picture of a spiced cookie baked in the shape of a small person. Bakers added icing for a face and buttons so it looked like a tiny 'man'. That's why today gingerbread man means a cookie made of gingerbread dough and shaped like a human figure.