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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

/ ˈɪɪ /

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
    1. a pale brown or yellowish-grey colour
    2. ( as adjective )

      biscuit gloves

  3. Also calledbisque earthenware or porcelain that has been fired but not glazed
  4. take the biscuit slang.
    to be regarded (by the speaker) as the most surprising thing that could have occurred
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Other Word Forms

  • cܾ· adjective
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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
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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
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Lynn Loftus, who has worked at the factory for 36 years, called the biscuit "timeless", adding that she thought it would be around for many years to come.

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A biscuit split open and slathered with strawberry preserves.

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Every time McIlroy wins a major, one of the bakeries makes biscuits with his face on them and they were on the shelves early on Monday morning.

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There's no familiar, powerful waft of cocoa when opening this bag of sweets, the packet of biscuits, or the caramel-filled truffles.

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Behind him, cardboard boxes of unsold biscuit packets and snacks show a "stock clearance sale" sign posted on them.

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