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. a small flat dry sweet or plain cake of many varieties, baked from a dough US and Canadian wordcookie
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 calledbisque earthenware or porcelain that has been fired but not glazed
5. take the biscuit slang.
   to be regarded (by the speaker) as the most surprising thing that could have occurred

Other Words From

• biscuit·like 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

Simply folding flattened biscuit dough over a spoonful of applesauce didn’t quite work for me.

From Washington Post

Perhaps a sprinkle of granulated sugar on the pies before baking or a dusting of confectioners’ after to account for the outsize ratio of biscuit to apple filling would bring the dish more solidly into dessert territory.

From Washington Post

They ate greens and beans and sweet potatoes, meat, biscuits, and always syrup.

From ProPublica

British exports ranging from Scotch whisky to biscuits to clotted cream have suffered from the duties.

From Fortune

This comprehensive set includes a 10 x 15-inch baking sheet for cookies, biscuits, and scones, a medium loaf pan, two 8-inch round cake pans, a 9 x 13-inch pan for sheet cakes, and a 12-cup muffin and cupcake pan.

From Popular-Science

Take James Carville, who, swigging Coc' Cola and playing the mad Cajun, spurred buttermilk-biscuit glamour to new heights.

From The Daily Beast

Down the street, Shirley's Burnt Biscuit serves breakfast with very good (not burnt) biscuits and fried pies.

From The Daily Beast

Drop the biscuit batter by the heaping tablespoonful onto a prepared baking sheets allowing about 1- inch between mounds.

From The Daily Beast

What will he actually do all day, in between going on tours of biscuit factories?

From The Daily Beast

They wake you in the middle of the night, give you tea and a biscuit, and then you start your 12-hour shift.

From The Daily Beast

The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.

From Project Gutenberg

That, like the matches, had long ago been used up, and our discoverers were reduced to roasted biscuit-crumbs.

From Project Gutenberg

This source of error may be eliminated by substituting a shredded whole-wheat biscuit for the roll.

From Project Gutenberg

That chit of a child set down the biscuit, but she snatched up a big cake worth twice as much.

From Project Gutenberg

Another large piece of biscuit was administered, and by degrees the cure was affected.

From Project Gutenberg

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