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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From bisket, borrowed from Old French bescuit (French biscuit); doublet of biscotti.
Pronunciation[edit]
- enPR: bĭs'kĭt, IPA(key): /ˈbɪskɪt/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪskɪt
Noun[edit]
biscuit (countable and uncountable, plural biscuits)
- (chiefly Britain, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, rare in the US) A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm: a cookie.
- (chiefly Canada, US) 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.
- (Britain) A cracker.
- cheese and biscuits, water biscuits, digestive biscuits
- (nautical) The "bread" formerly supplied to naval ships, which was made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes, and slowly baked, and which often became infested with weevils.
- A form of unglazed earthenware.
- 2004, Frank Hamer; Janet Hamer, The Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques, 5th edition, London; Philadelphia, Penn.: A & C Black; University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 248:
- An overfired biscuit has insufficient porosity for glazing.
- A light brown colour.
- biscuit colour:
- (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.
- (US, slang) A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.
- (ice hockey) A hockey puck.
Usage notes[edit]
- In North America, a biscuit is a small, soft baked bread similar to a scone but not sweet. In the United Kingdom, a biscuit is a small, crisp or firm, sweet baked good — the sort of thing which in North America is called a cookie. (Less frequently, British speakers refer to crackers as biscuits.) In North America, even small, layered baked sweets like Oreos are referred to as cookies, while in the UK, only those biscuits which have chocolate chips, nuts, fruit, or other things baked into them are also called cookies.
- Throughout the English-speaking world, thin, crispy, salty or savoury baked breads like these are called crackers, while thin, crispy, sweet baked goods like these and these are wafers.
- Both the US and the UK distinguish crackers, wafers and cookies/biscuits from cakes: the former are generally hard or crisp and become soft when stale, while the latter is generally soft or moist and becomes hard when stale.
Quotations[edit]
For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:biscuit.
Coordinate terms[edit]
- (woodworking): dowel, glue strip, spline, finger joint
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from biscuit
Descendants[edit]
- → Burmese: ဘီစကွတ် (bhica.kwat)
Translations[edit]
small, flat baked good — See also translations at cookie
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cracker — see cracker
ship's "bread"
form of earthenware
light brown colour
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woodworking: wafer to provide gluing surface
See also[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French bescuit, from bescuire, equivalent to bis- + cuit, or from Medieval Latin biscoctum, from Latin bis (“twice”) coctus (“cooked”). Compare Italian biscotto, Spanish bizcocho, Portuguese biscoito. May be decomposed as bis + cuit.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
biscuit m (plural biscuits)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “biscuit” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French biscuit. Doublet of biscotto.
Noun[edit]
biscuit m (invariable)
Anagrams[edit]
Romanian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- biscot (dated)
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
biscuit m (plural biscuiți)
Declension[edit]
declension of biscuit
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) biscuit | biscuitul | (niște) biscuiți | biscuiții |
genitive/dative | (unui) biscuit | biscuitului | (unor) biscuiți | biscuiților |
vocative | biscuitule | biscuiților |
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- biscuit in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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- English terms derived from Old French
- English doublets
- English 2-syllable words
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- English countable nouns
- British English
- Australian English
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- en:Nautical
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- en:Woodworking
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- en:Ice hockey
- en:Browns
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- French terms inherited from Medieval Latin
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