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

Her phone was kept on silent; electro-beats hummed in the background; digestive biscuits were devoured.

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"Go and buy some biscuits with it," she said, handing back a customer two 20-shekel notes.

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With no staff to distribute the biscuits, they expired while sitting in a warehouse in Dubai.

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A welcome contribution to the 5 p.m. rite, this bright-yellow box of 10 savory cheese biscuits pairs perfectly with a chilled Beaujolais. is.

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Examples of UPFs include sausages, crisps, pastries, biscuits, instant soups, fizzy drinks, ice cream and supermarket bread.

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