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biscuit
1[ bis-kit ]
noun
- a kind of bread in small, soft cakes, raised with baking powder or soda, or sometimes with yeast; scone.
- Chiefly British.
- a dry and crisp or hard bread in thin, flat cakes, made without yeast or other raising agent; a cracker.
- 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.
biscuit
2[ bees-kwee ]
noun
- a cookie or cracker.
biscuit
/ ˈbɪskɪt /
noun
- a small flat dry sweet or plain cake of many varieties, baked from a dough US and Canadian wordcookie
- a kind of small roll similar to a muffin
- a pale brown or yellowish-grey colour
- ( as adjective )
biscuit gloves
- Also calledbisque 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
Other Word Forms
- biscuit·like adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of biscuit1
Example Sentences
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.
There's no familiar, powerful waft of cocoa when opening this bag of sweets, the packet of biscuits, or the caramel-filled truffles.
Behind him, cardboard boxes of unsold biscuit packets and snacks show a "stock clearance sale" sign posted on them.
As a "last resort" once all other food is exhausted, it has emergency stocks of fortified nutritional biscuits for 415,000 people.
Jannat, who runs a tiny shop selling biscuits and milk cartons, often can't afford the bus fare to attend protests demanding information about the missing.
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