gingersnap

Other forms: gingersnaps

A gingersnap is a crisp, spicy little cookie. Gingersnaps are perfect for dunking into milk, tea, or coffee.

The gingersnap is also known as a "ginger nut," especially in the U.K. It's a sweet, brittle cookie that's flavored with plenty of ginger and often other spices like cinnamon, cloves, or nutmeg, and baked in small rounds. The predecessor to the gingersnap is the Cornish fairing, a little ginger biscuit that was sold at fairs in Cornwall as early as the 12th century.

Definitions of gingersnap

1. noun

   a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger
   synonyms: ginger nut, ginger snap, snap

   types:

   brandysnap

   a gingersnap flavored with brandy

   type of:

   biscuit, cookie, cooky

   any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)