biscuit

¹

[bis-kit]

noun

1. a kind of bread in small, soft cakes, raised with baking powder or soda, or sometimes with yeast; scone.

2. Chiefly British.

   1. a dry and crisp or hard bread in thin, flat cakes, made without yeast or other raising agent; a cracker.

   2. a cookie.

3. a pale-brown color.

4. Also called bisque. Ceramics.,  unglazed earthenware or porcelain after firing.

5. Also called preform. a piece of plastic or the like, prepared for pressing into a phonograph record.

adjective

1. having the color biscuit.

biscuit

²

[bees-kwee]

noun

French.

1. a cookie or cracker.

biscuit

/ ˈbɪskɪt /

noun

1. US and Canadian word: cookie. a small flat dry sweet or plain cake of many varieties, baked from a dough

2. a kind of small roll similar to a muffin

3. 1. a pale brown or yellowish-grey colour

   2. ( as adjective )

      biscuit gloves

4. Also called: bisque. earthenware or porcelain that has been fired but not glazed

5. slang,  to be regarded (by the speaker) as the most surprising thing that could have occurred

Other Word Forms

• biscuitlike adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of biscuit¹

1300–50; Middle English bysquyte < Middle French biscuit ( Medieval Latin biscoctus ), variant of bescuit seamen's bread, literally, twice cooked, equivalent to bes bis ¹ + cuit, past participle of cuire < Latin coquere to cook ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of biscuit¹

C14: from Old French, from ( pain ) bescuit twice-cooked (bread), from bes _bis + cuire to cook, from Latin coquere

Example Sentences

High street baker Greggs is set to raise prices on its breakfast meal deals and biscuits in response to growing cost pressures, the company's chief executive has said.

From BBC

Grinning to see his old colleague had made the effort to return to meet him, Mourinho asked "where are my favourite biscuits?"

From BBC

Week two of “The Great British Bake Off” put the focus on biscuits as the bakers whipped up a dozen Hobnobs and showstopping memento time capsules.

From Salon

If that doesn't seem enough there's a special cocktail, the Transatlantic Whisky Sour, which blends Johnnie Walker with the bright citrus of marmalade, with pecan foam and a toasted marshmallow on a biscuit.

From BBC

Cookies, breads, pancakes, biscuit dough — whatever has made the cut — get formed and, if applicable, baked and cooled.

From Salon

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