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English[edit]




Etymology[edit]
PIE word |
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*dwóh₁ |
From earlier bisket, from Middle English bisquyte, 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) - (Philippine) IPA(key): /bɪs.ˈkwit/
- Rhymes: -ɪskɪt
Noun[edit]
biscuit (countable and uncountable, plural biscuits)
- (UK, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, sometimes Canada, rare in the US and the Philippines) A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.
- 1992 October 3, Edwina Currie, Diary:
- (chiefly Canada, US, rare in Scotland and Guernsey) 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.
- (UK, Philippines) A cracker.
- cheese and 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.
- Synonyms: biscuitware, biscuitry
- 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 87:
- Charm'd by your touch, the kneaded clay refines, / The biscuit hardens, the enamel shines […] .
- 2004, Frank Hamer with 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:
- (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.
- Synonyms: dowel, finger joint, glue strip, spline
- (US, slang) A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.
- (US, slang, hiphop) A handgun, especially a revolver.
- 2007, Army of the Pharaohs (lyrics and music), “Bloody Tears”, in Ritual of Battle[1]:
- I shoot my biscuit in the air until the sky is gone
- (ice hockey, shuffleboard) A puck (hockey puck).
- (slang) The head.
- 2012 April 2, Nicki Minaj (lyrics and music), “Beez in the Trap” (track 4), in Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded[2]:
- Damn, damn, what they say about me?
I don't know man, fuck is on your biscuit
- 2022 December 1, YOUNGESTSAV (lyrics and music), “District”, PressPlay, 0:26 and oftener:
- […] Risk it, you get slapped in your biscuit
Usage notes[edit]
- In North America, a biscuit is a small, soft baked bread similar to a scone but not sweet. In some cases, it can be hard (see dog biscuit). 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, typically 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 in this image (saltine crackers) are called crackers, while thin, crispy, sweet baked goods like in this image (Nilla Wafers) and this image (wafer sticks) 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 using this term, see Citations:biscuit.
Derived terms[edit]
- Abernethy biscuit
- air biscuit
- Anzac biscuit
- arse biscuit
- bickie
- biscotto
- biscuit beetle
- biscuit bomber
- biscuit cutter
- biscuit firing
- biscuit hook
- biscuit jointer
- biscuitless
- biscuitlike
- biscuit root
- biscuits and gravy
- biscuit shooter
- biscuit tin
- biscuit ware
- biscuit weight
- biscuity
- bisque
- bite the biscuit
- Bourbon biscuit
- butter my butt and call me a biscuit
- butter someone's biscuit
- cathead biscuit
- digestive biscuit
- disco biscuit
- dog biscuit
- dry biscuit
- fly biscuit
- Graham biscuit
- have the biscuit
- Leary biscuit
- make biscuits
- Marie biscuit
- meat biscuit
- Naples biscuit
- pilot biscuit
- ratafia biscuit
- rice biscuit
- rich tea biscuit
- risk it for the biscuit
- sea biscuit
- ship biscuit
- shit biscuit
- sledging biscuit
- soda biscuit
- soggy biscuit
- take the biscuit
- water biscuit
- what do you want, a biscuit
- whisker biscuit
- wine biscuit
Descendants[edit]
- Tok Pisin: bisket
- → Bengali: বিস্কুট (biskuṭ)
- → Burmese: ဘီစကွတ် (bhica.kwat)
- → Cebuano: biskwit
- → Fiji Hindi: biskut
- → Gujarati: બિસ્કિટ (biskiṭ)
- → Hausa: bìskît
- → Hebrew: ביסקוויט (bískvit)
- → Hiligaynon: biskwit
- → Hindi: बिस्कुट (biskuṭ)
- → Indonesian: beskit, biskit
- → Japanese: ビスケット (bisuketto)
- → Korean: 비스켓 (biseuket)
- → Malay: biskut
- → Marshallese: petkōj
- → Punjabi: ਬਿਸਕੁਟ (biskuṭ)
- → Scottish Gaelic: briosgaid
- → Spanish: bísquet
- → Swahili: biskuti
- → Tagalog: biskuwit
- → Thai: บิสกิต (bís-gìt)
- → Zulu: bhisikidi
Translations[edit]
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small bread similar to scone
cracker — see cracker
ship's "bread"
form of earthenware
light brown colour
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woodworking: wafer to provide gluing surface
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- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
See also[edit]
- cookie
- cracknel
- hardtack
- macaroon
- pilot bread
- soda cracker
- (shuffleboard): tang
- Appendix:Colors
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old French bescuit, from Early Medieval Latin biscoctus (literally “twice-baked”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
biscuit m (plural biscuits)
- biscuit (cookie)
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Arabic: بَسْكَوِيت (baskawīt)
- → Bulgarian: бискви́та (biskvíta)
- → Dutch: biscuit, → Dutch: beschuit
- → Esperanto: biskvito
- → Ido: bisquito
- → Estonian: biskviit
- → Indonesian: biskuit
- → Italian: biscuit
- → Latvian: biskvīts
- → Lithuanian: biskvitas
- → Macedonian: бискви́т (biskvít)
- → Moroccan Arabic: بسكوي (biskwi)
- → Persian: بیسکوئیت (bisku'it)
- → Romanian: biscuit
- → Russian: бискви́т (biskvít)
- → Serbo-Croatian: бѝсквӣт, bìskvīt
- → Turkish: bisküvi
- → Vietnamese: bích quy
Further reading[edit]
- “biscuit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from French biscuit. Doublet of biscotto.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
biscuit m (invariable)
Anagrams[edit]
Romanian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- biscot (dated)
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French biscuit. Doublet of pișcot, which came from Hungarian.
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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