biscuit

English

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Etymology

From bisket, from Old French bescuit (French: biscuit).

Pronunciation

• enPR: bĭs'kĭt, IPA: /ˈbɪskɪt/, X-SAMPA: /"bIskIt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪskɪt

Noun

La Nourrice biscuit (3) after Louis Boizot.

biscuit (plural biscuits)

1. A cookie.
2. (chiefly North America) A small bread usually made with baking soda, similar in texture to a scone, but usually not sweet.
3. A form of unglazed earthenware.
4. (nautical) The "bread" formerly supplied to naval ships; made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes and slowly baked; often infested with weevils.
5. A light brown colour.

   biscuit colour:

6. (woodworking) 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.

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

Usage notes

• In British usage, a biscuit is distinct from a cake; the former is generally hard but becomes soft when stale, whereas the latter is generally soft but becomes hard when stale.

Coordinate terms

• (woodworking): dowel, glue strip, spline, finger joint

Derived terms

Terms derived from biscuit

Anzac biscuit bickie biscotto biscuit firing biscuit ware

bisque bite the biscuit digestive biscuit dog biscuit ratafia biscuit

sea biscuit ship biscuit soda biscuit take the biscuit water biscuit

Translations

cookie

• Afrikaans: biscuit (af)
• Albanian: biskotë (sq) m, galetë (sq)
• Arabic: بسكويت (ar) (biskewit) m

  Egyptian Arabic: بسكويتة (baskawita) f,بسكويت (baskawit) m pl, بسكوت (baskut) m pl

• Armenian: թխվածք (hy) (t’xvaçk’) , պեչենի (hy) (pečeni) 
• Azeri: biskvit (az)
• Basque: galleta (eu)
• Bulgarian: сухар (bg) f (suhar), бисквита (bg) f (biskvita)
• Catalan: galeta (ca) f
• Czech: sušenka (cs)
• Dutch: koekje (nl), biscuit (nl)
• Esperanto: kringo (eo)
• Estonian: biskviit (et)
• Finnish: keksi (fi)
• French: biscuit (fr)
• Galician: biscoito (gl) m
• Georgian: ორცხობილით (ka) (ortskhbogilit) 
• German: Keks (de)
• Greek: μπισκότο (el) (biskóto) m 
• Hebrew: ביסקוויט (he) (biskuit)
• Ido: bisquito
• Indonesian: biskit (id), biskuit (id)
• Irish: briosca (ga) m
• Italian: biscotto (it) m, biscottino (it) m
• Japanese: ビスケット (bisuketto)

• Latin: biscoctus (la) m
• Luxembourgish: Kichelchen (lb) m
• Macedonian: кекс (mk) (keks) m, бисквит (mk) (biskvít) m
• Malay: biskut (ms)
• Maltese: galettina (mt) f
• Manx: biskee (gv)
• Maori: pihikete (mi)
• Mongolian: хатсан талх (mn) (khatsan talkh) 
• Nauruan: beitker (na)
• Norwegian: kjeks (no) m, småkake (no) m
• Polish: ciastko (pl) n
• Portuguese: biscoito (pt)
• Romanian: biscuit (ro) m
• Russian: бисквит (ru) (biskvit) 
• Scottish Gaelic: briosgaid f
• Serbo-Croatian: biskvit (sh)
• Spanish: galleta (es)
• Swahili: biskuti (sw)
• Swedish: kex (sv)
• Tagalog: biskwit (tl)
• Turkish: bisküvi (tr)
• Ukrainian: печиво (uk) (lečyvo) m 
• Vietnamese: bánh quy (vi)
• Welsh: bisged (cy)
• Zulu: bhisikidi (zu)

small bread similar to scone

• Finnish: teeleipä (fi)

form of earthenware

• Bulgarian: неглазирана керамика (bg) f (neglazirana keramika)
• Finnish: bisque (fi)
• Malay: biskut (ms)

• Spanish: biscocho (es) m, bizcocho (es) m
• Swahili: biskuti (sw)

ship's "bread"

• Bulgarian: сухар (bg) m (suhar)
• Finnish: laivakorppu (fi)

• Norwegian: kjeks (no) m
• Swahili: biskuti (sw)

light brown colour

• Finnish: vaaleanruskea (fi)

woodworking: wafer to provide gluing surface

See also

cookie cracknel

hardtack macaroon

pilot bread soda cracker Appendix:Colors

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French

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Etymology

Old French bescuit, from bis- +‎ cuit.

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /biskɥi/

Noun

biscuit m (plural biscuits)

1. biscuit

Derived terms

• biscuit chinois
• biscuit sablé
• biscuiterie

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Italian

Etymology

French

Noun

biscuit m (invariable)

1. biscuit (white earthenware)
2. wafer (for ice cream)

Anagrams

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