biscuit
1a kind of bread in small, soft cakes, raised with baking powder or soda, or sometimes with yeast; scone.
Chiefly British.
a dry and crisp or hard bread in thin, flat cakes, made without yeast or other raising agent; a cracker.
a cookie.
having the color biscuit.
Origin of biscuit
1Other words from biscuit
- bis·cuit·like, adjective
Words Nearby biscuit
Other definitions for biscuit (2 of 2)
a cookie or cracker.
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How to use biscuit in a sentence
Take James Carville, who, swigging Coc' Cola and playing the mad Cajun, spurred buttermilk-biscuit glamour to new heights.
Let Us Now Praise Famous Rednecks and Their Unjustly Unsung Kin | Allison Glock | August 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDown the street, Shirley's Burnt biscuit serves breakfast with very good (not burnt) biscuits and fried pies.
Big-Sky West Texas: A Road Trip Through Hidden America | Condé Nast Traveler | March 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDrop the biscuit batter by the heaping tablespoonful onto a prepared baking sheets allowing about 1- inch between mounds.
What will he actually do all day, in between going on tours of biscuit factories?
Why Prince William is Mad To Quit The Day Job For A Full-Time Life of Ribbon-Cutting | Tom Sykes | September 13, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThey wake you in the middle of the night, give you tea and a biscuit, and then you start your 12-hour shift.
The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairThat, like the matches, had long ago been used up, and our discoverers were reduced to roasted biscuit-crumbs.
The Giant of the North | R.M. BallantyneThis source of error may be eliminated by substituting a shredded whole-wheat biscuit for the roll.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddThat chit of a child set down the biscuit, but she snatched up a big cake worth twice as much.
Dorothy at Skyrie | Evelyn RaymondAnother large piece of biscuit was administered, and by degrees the cure was affected.
The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands | R.M. Ballantyne
British Dictionary definitions for biscuit
/ (ˈbɪskɪt) /
British a small flat dry sweet or plain cake of many varieties, baked from a dough: US and Canadian word: cookie
US and Canadian a kind of small roll similar to a muffin
a pale brown or yellowish-grey colour
(as adjective): biscuit gloves
Also called: bisque earthenware or porcelain that has been fired but not glazed
take the biscuit slang to be regarded (by the speaker) as the most surprising thing that could have occurred
Origin of biscuit
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