biscuit

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[ bis-kit ]
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noun
  1. a kind of bread in small, soft cakes, raised with baking powder or soda, or sometimes with yeast; scone.

  2. Chiefly British.

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

    • a cookie.

  1. a pale-brown color.

  2. Also called bisque. Ceramics. unglazed earthenware or porcelain after firing.

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

adjective
  1. having the color biscuit.

Origin of biscuit

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1300–50; Middle English bysquyte<Middle French biscuit (Medieval Latin biscoctus), variant of bescuit seamen's bread, literally, twice cooked, equivalent to besbis1 + cuit, past participle of cuire<Latin coquere to cook1

Other words from biscuit

  • bis·cuit·like, adjective

Words Nearby biscuit

Other definitions for biscuit (2 of 2)

biscuit2
[ bees-kwee ]

nounFrench.
  1. a cookie or cracker.

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How to use biscuit in a sentence

  • 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. Sinclair
  • That, 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. Ballantyne
  • This source of error may be eliminated by substituting a shredded whole-wheat biscuit for the roll.

    A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell Todd
  • That chit of a child set down the biscuit, but she snatched up a big cake worth twice as much.

    Dorothy at Skyrie | Evelyn Raymond
  • Another large piece of biscuit was administered, and by degrees the cure was affected.

British Dictionary definitions for biscuit

biscuit

/ (ˈbɪskɪt) /


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

  2. US and Canadian a kind of small roll similar to a muffin

    • a pale brown or yellowish-grey colour

    • (as adjective): biscuit gloves

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

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

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