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biscuit
- /ˈbɪs.kɪt/
- /ˈbəs.kət/ New Zealand
- /bɪs.keʈ/ India
- [ˈbɪs.kë̞ʈ] India
- /bɪs.kɪʈ/ India
- [ˈbɪs.kɪʈ] India
- /bɪs.kʊʈ/ India
- [ˈbɪs.kʊʈ] India
- /bɪs.kəʈ/ India
- [ˈbɪs.kɐʈ] India
- /ˈbis.kwɪt/ Philippines
Rhymes with -ɛt, -ɪt, -ɪskɪt, -ʊt, -ʌt
Where it comes from
PIE word
*dwóh₁
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
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Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu.
Proto-Indo-European *dwís
Proto-Italic *dwis
Old Latin duis
Latin bis
Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti
Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō
Latin *quoquō
Latin coquō
Latin coctus
Early Medieval Latin biscoctus
Old French bescuitbor.
Middle English bisquyte
English biscuit
From earlier bisket, from Middle English bisquyte, from Old French bescuit (French biscuit); doublet of biscotto.
noun biscuits
- A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie. Weighed myself at the gym and have hit 10st 8lb, a sure sign of things getting out of control—so I can’t even console myself with a chocolate biscuit.
- A small, usually soft and flaky bread, generally made with baking soda, which is similar in texture to a scone but which is usually not sweet.
- A cracker. cheese and biscuits
- Any of several hard bread or breadlike foodstuffs, especially those formerly supplied to naval ships and armies, made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes, and slowly baked, and which often became infested with weevils. Near-synonyms: tack, bread
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A form of unglazed earthenware.
Charm'd by your touch, the kneaded clay refines, / The biscuit hardens, the enamel shines […].
Similar: biscuitware, biscuitry
- A light brown colour.
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A thin oval wafer of wood or other material inserted into mating slots on pieces of material to be joined to provide gluing surface and strength in shear.
Similar: dowel, finger joint, glue strip, spline
- A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.
- A handgun, especially a revolver. I shoot my biscuit in the air until the sky is gone
- A puck (hockey puck).
- The head. Damn, damn, what they say about me? I don't know man, fuck is on your biscuit
- An inner tube used in the sport of tubing, or biscuiting.
- A young woman.
verb biscuits · biscuiting · biscuited
- To fire (pottery) in a kiln, without a ceramic glaze.
- To take part in the sport of tubing, riding down a river on an inner tube.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: cookie, cooky, bun, cake, cheesecake, pie, twinkie, cracker, cannoli, sandwich, cupcake, bisque, rusk, snack, palm, wet
Translations
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noun small, flat baked good — see also cookie, cracker
| Español | galleta, bísquet |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 비스킷 biseukit, 쿠키 kuki |
| 日本語 | ビスケット bisuketto, クッキー kukkī |
| 中文 | 餅乾 /饼干 bǐnggān |
| हिन्दी | बिस्कुट biskuṭ |
| Kiswahili | biskuti |
| Português | biscoito |
| Français | biscuit |
| Deutsch | Keks |
| Italiano | biscotto, biscottino |
| Ελληνικά | μπισκότο biskóto |
| Română | biscuit |
| Русский | пече́нье pečénʹje, бискви́т biskvít |
| Tiếng Việt | bánh quy |
| العربية | بَسْكَوِيت baskawīt, بِسْكْوِي biskwī, بَسْكُوت baskūt, بِسْكِت biskit |
| עברית | בִּיסְקְוִיט, ביסקוויט biskvít |
noun small bread similar to scone
| Español | hallulla |
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