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.
Origin of biscuit
1
1300–50; Middle English bysquyte<Middle French biscuit (Medieval Latin biscoctus), variant of bescuit seamen's bread, literally, twice cooked, equivalent to besbis1 + cuit, past participle of cuire<Latin coquere to cook1
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Drop the biscuit batter by the heaping tablespoonful onto a prepared baking sheets allowing about 1- inch between mounds.
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They wake you in the middle of the night, give you tea and a biscuit, and then you start your 12-hour shift.
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A parliamentary answer, and he gets a biscuit tin thrown at his head for his troubles.
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It is a parliamentary answer, and Bloom gets a biscuit tin thrown at his head for his, shall we say, troubles.
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Cynthy is one of the most capable girls, smart as a trap, and bright as a biscuit.
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This made me present them with trinkets, beads, and biscuit; the last they learned to ask for clearly in our language.
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Yes, and how'd you like to have all the kids callin' you 'Quitter' and tellin' you to go play with Biscuit Westfall?
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In few words, there she waited, for the biscuit to be presented to her.
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He had cut down to one biscuit night and morning, and somehow he did not seem to notice it.
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British Dictionary definitions for biscuit
biscuit
/ (ˈbɪskɪt) /
noun
Britisha small flat dry sweet or plain cake of many varieties, baked from a doughUS and Canadian word: cookie
US and Canadiana kind of small roll similar to a muffin
a pale brown or yellowish-grey colour
(as adjective)biscuit gloves
Also called: bisqueearthenware or porcelain that has been fired but not glazed
take the biscuitslangto 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 besbis + cuire to cook, from Latin coquere