ginger nut

ginger nut
noun
a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger
Syn: ↑gingersnap, ↑ginger snap, ↑snap
Hypernyms: ↑cookie, ↑cooky, ↑biscuit
Hyponyms: ↑brandysnap

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noun
: a cookie spiced with ginger : gingersnap

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ginger nut noun
A small thick gingersnap
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Main Entry:ginger

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ginger nut UK US noun [countable] [singular ginger nut plural ginger nuts] [singular ginger snap plural ginger snaps]
a type of biscuit that has a strong ginger flavour
Thesaurus: cakes and biscuitshyponym types of food or drinkhypernym
Variant: ginger snap

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ˈginger nut f10 [ginger nut] (BrE) (also ˈginger snap NAmE, BrE) noun
a hard sweet biscuit/cookie flavoured with ↑ginger

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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