zwieback

Meaning

A form of rusk, usually sweetened bread enriched with eggs that is baked and then sliced and toasted until dry and crisp; considered easy to digest and therefore given to the ill and used as a teething food for toddlers.

Synonyms

rusk

twice-baked bread

Brussels biscuit

biscuit

cracker

ship biscuit

hardtack

sea-biscuit

bisque

flatbrod

cookie

🍪

dried crust

floppy

biscuit porcelain

Translations

Zwieback

biscotte

bizcocho

peksimet

beschuit

biscuit

biscotin

galeta

Etymology

From German Zwieback, from zwie- (“twi-, two-”) + backen (“to bake”) (i.e. “twice-baked”), a calque of Italian biscotto (but not to be confused with it).