Definition of Gingerbready

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gingerbready

ginger knob
ginger nut
ginger oleoresin
ginger paralysis
ginger pop
ginger pops
ginger root
ginger snap
ginger up
gingerbeer
gingerbeers
gingerbread
gingerbread man
gingerbreaded
gingerbreads
gingerbready (current term)
gingered
gingerette
gingerettes
gingering
gingerish
gingerism
gingerlike
gingerliness
gingerlinesses
gingerly
gingerness
gingernut
gingernuts
gingerol

Literary usage of Gingerbready

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Church Building: A Study of the Principles of Architecture in Their Relation by Ralph Adams Cram (1914)
"... but it must be carefully designed, and with great gravity and restraint, for it will tend to the condition of the frivolous, " gingerbready " follies ..."

2. Paris in '67: Or, The Great Exposition, Its Side-shows and Excursions by Henry Morford (1867)
"... without, than they seem to be held by the English people, who make an affectation of considering them gingerbready, tawdry, and in bad taste. ..."

3. The Canadian Monthly and National Review by William White (1872)
"... daughters' taste may, by a wholesome dress-regimen, be so directed as to acquire a vigorous health, which will make them scorn all these gingerbready, ..."

4. The Canadian Monthly and National Review by William White (1872)
"... daughters' taste may, by a wholesome dress-regimen, be so directed as to acquire a vigorous health, which will make them scorn all these gingerbready, ..."

5. Aguecheek [pseud.] by Charles Fairbanks (1859)
"... certainly, and the lately finished towers are a pleasing feature in the view from the bridges; but they are altogether too gingerbready to wear well. ..."

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