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

Mr Stockton told paramedics he believed Charlie had appeared to be choking on a biscuit, but further investigation after the child's death showed that could "not have been", Mr Lumley said.

From BBC

An only child, her father was a “sensible and supportive” biscuit salesman, but her mother was another story.

From BBC

"Feeding myself is practically impossible here, I just have fruit and biscuits until I can get to my daughter's for a proper dinner."

From BBC

To survive the long journey, Mr Oualy has only taken a few bottles of water and a handful of biscuits.

From BBC

They include a cornbread mix, biscuit mix and two brownie mixes inspired by Parton’s favorite family recipes.

From Salon

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