Gingerbread (g soft)
.Brummagem wares, showy but worthless. The allusion is to the gilt gingerbread toys sold at fairs.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.