biscuit

Noun

1. (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, countable, rare, sometimes, uncountable) A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.
2. (Canada, US, countable, rare, uncountable) 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.
3. (Ireland, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, UK, countable, uncountable) A cracker.
4. (countable, especially, uncountable) 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.
5. (countable, uncountable) A form of unglazed earthenware.
6. (countable, uncountable) A light brown colour.
7. (countable, uncountable) 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.
8. (US, countable, slang, uncountable) A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.
9. (US, countable, slang, uncountable) A handgun, especially a revolver.
10. (countable, uncountable) A puck (hockey puck).
11. (countable, slang, uncountable) The head.
12. (New-Zealand, countable, uncountable) An inner tube used in the sport of tubing, or biscuiting.

Verb

1. (transitive) To fire (pottery) in a kiln, without a ceramic glaze.
2. (New-Zealand, intransitive) To take part in the sport of tubing, riding down a river on an inner tube.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbɪskɪt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: bisquyte

Cognate with French: biscuit

In summary

PIE word
*dwóh₁
From earlier bisket, from Middle English bisquyte, from Old French bescuit (French biscuit); doublet of biscotto.

Synonyms

cookie

🍪

cracker

light brown

bisque

bread

🍞

cake

🍰

biscuit porcelain

zwieback

rusk

cookie

🍪

cooky

hardtack

pie

🥧

crackers

sippet

snap

sponge cake

trifle

wafer

hard biscuit

teacake

petit four

dried crust

tea biscuit

bickie

bicky

dry sago

biscuits

bread roll

cookies

donut

ecru

fried bread

fritter

nut

pancake

pastry

preform

roll

scone

Translations

biscuit

biscotto

Keks

🍪

galleta

biscuit

galeta

bolacha

bizcocho

μπισκότο

Plätzchen

biscoito

🍪

koekje

ciastko

bisküvi

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