Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A chewy, usually honey-flavored Christmas cookie containing nuts and candied fruits.
Wiktionary
- n. A traditional German Christmas biscuit form of gingerbread.
Etymologies
- See German Kuchen ("cake"). The origin of the first component is uncertain: it might come from Latin libum ("flat bread") or Germanic Laib, loaf, or Leb-Honig, crystallized honey often used in baking. (Wiktionary)
- German, from Middle High German lebekuoche : lebe-, of unknown meaning + kuoche, cake; see kuchen. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“To me they taste a little like the fantastic brandy sauce I made to pour over our Christmas pudding, crossed with the thin German lebkuchen biscuits....and with an orange flavour.”
“As we explore the market we stop for some lebkuchen which is a famous traditional gingerbread cake.”
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“The main difference was fewer lebkuchen and roasted nuts stands and, in a Gallic twist, more escargot stands.”
“The two basic forms of gingerbread are shortbread made with molasses, which originated in Scotland, and lebkuchen, which uses honey as a sweetener and originated in Germany.”
“Germany's soft ginger honey cakes lebkuchen or pfefferkuchen are possibly the first cookies/cake traditionally associated with Christmas.”
“Marzipan and lebkuchen from Cost Plus, Choxie and almonds in nice containers from Target.”
“Plus, it was enormous, and it took us (actually, Bruno, he loves that kind of dry spicy thing, like a kind of lebkuchen, a gingery spicy cakey biscuit) the whole of our holidays in the mountains to get through it.”
“If you don't know a word, it puts it in context for you, like Bart slipped a lebkuchen to the Schnauzer, if that clears it up.”
“They taste a bit like a cross between German lebkuchen gingerbread and the brandy sauce I make to pour over our pudding.”
“Two years ago I made excellent lebkuchen from a recipe I accidentally threw away bugger.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lebkuchen’.
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Additional 250 Spelling Words
Words for the diehard intermediate and advanced spellers
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Cookie Monster
Please list your favourite cookie! May I suggest you leave out the generic bit unless it's absolutely essential, eg. list chocolate-chip rather than chocolate-chip cookie. On the other hand, bran...
wagon wheel, snickerdoodle, nuß-ecken, thin mint, lebkuchen, jammy dodger, charleston square, chocolate kimberley, whoopie pie, pufferdoodle, pfeffernüsse, chocolate crinkle and 9 more...
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C is for Cookie
chocolate chip, sugar, butter, oatmeal, peanut butter, pinwheel, snickerdoodle, shortbread, butterscotch, refrigerator, icebox, Girl Scout and 42 more...
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German words
blödsinn, heimat, abendbrot, lebkuchen, schelm, currywurst, knatschig, spekulatius, knäppchen, apfelkitsche, woll, wonnich and 98 more...
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Listed various words that have come into my mind. Will edit them at some point - honestly.
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words from the German
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Food
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spaghetti, yogurt, muesli, rarebit, wheat, cream, cheese, pumpkin, custard, couscous, oats, sausage and 237 more...
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Christmas
carol, yule, noel, nowel, yuletide, melampodium, toyon, wassail, pantomime, simnel, epiphany, luminaria and 37 more...
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Winter Food & Drink
What may be partaken during winter holidays.
gingerbread, pfeffernusse, pfefferkuchen, parkin, fruitcake, panforte, stollen, lebkuchen, laufabraud, black bun, hardbake, trifle and 39 more...
Tweets
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reesetee Haha! The balls. The cookies only broke my teeth when they were really, really stale. Jan 4, 2008
trivet The ball or the cookie? Jan 4, 2008
reesetee You mean the ones that broke your teeth when you ate them? Yum! Jan 4, 2008
trivet Me, I'm anti-redhot and pro Lebkuchen. At least the kind my Gran made. No walnuts or firey sugar, just a glazy icing and if you were extra lucky, one of those silver balls... Jan 4, 2008
reesetee They're omnipresent in the States around Valentine's Day--I know because I once received an entire shoebox (sans shoes) full of them. It took about six years to eat them all, and I haven't bought shoes since. Jan 4, 2008
bilby Okay, the I'm convinced the world needs Red Hots, thanks jenn :-) Jan 4, 2008
jennarenn You don't like Red Hots???? Have you ever had one that came with its very own lebkuchen attached to the back? Jan 4, 2008
chained_bear I hate eating redhots, but they are certainly cute as the dickens. Jan 4, 2008
jennarenn Red Hots are spicy little cinnamon candies sold in the US. My grandma used the frost the lebkuchen with white icing and place three little Red Hots in a cluster on the top of the lucky cookies. Less fortunate treats got a lonely nut. Jan 4, 2008
bilby What are redhots? I'm excited. Jan 4, 2008
jennarenn German spice cookies with all kind of wonderful stuff inside of them. You want the ones topped with redhots instead of walnuts. Jan 4, 2008