biscuit

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[ bis-kit ]
/ ˈbɪs kɪt /
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noun

a kind of bread in small, soft cakes, raised with baking powder or soda, or sometimes with yeast; scone.
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.
a pale-brown color.
Also called bisque. Ceramics. unglazed earthenware or porcelain after firing.
Also called preform. a piece of plastic or the like, prepared for pressing into a phonograph record.

adjective

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 bes bis1 + cuit, past participle of cuire < Latin coquere to cook1

OTHER WORDS FROM biscuit

bis·cuit·like, adjective

Words nearby biscuit

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Definition for biscuit (2 of 2)

biscuit 2
[ bees-kwee ]
/ bisˈkwi /

noun French.

a cookie or cracker.

Words related to biscuit

beige, drab, khaki, brownish, tan, cream, taupe, camel, off-white, wafer, cake, cookie, cracker, candy, demeanor, visage, mien, pretzel, brown, natural

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British Dictionary definitions for biscuit

biscuit
/ (ˈbɪskɪt) /

noun

British a small flat dry sweet or plain cake of many varieties, baked from a dough US and Canadian word: cookie
US and Canadian a kind of small roll similar to a muffin
  1. a pale brown or yellowish-grey colour
  2. (as adjective)biscuit gloves
Also called: bisque earthenware or porcelain that has been fired but not glazed
take the biscuit slang to be regarded (by the speaker) as the most surprising thing that could have occurred

Word Origin for biscuit

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