biscuit
English
Etymology
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From bisket, borrowed from Old French bescuit (French biscuit); doublet of biscotti.
Pronunciation
- enPR: bĭs'kĭt, IPA(key): /ˈbɪskɪt/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (UK): (file) Audio (AU): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪskɪt
Noun
biscuit (countable and uncountable, plural biscuits)
- (chiefly UK, 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.
- (UK) 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.
- 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).
Usage notes
- 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
For quotations using this term, see Citations:biscuit.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
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small bread similar to scone
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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
- Esperanto: (please verify) biskvito
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See also
- pilot bread
- soda cracker
- (shuffleboard): tang
- Appendix:Colors
French
Etymology
From Old French bescuit, from bescuire, equivalent to bis- + cuit, or from Medieval Latin biscoctus, from Latin bis (“twice”) coctus (“cooked”). Compare Italian biscotto, Spanish bizcocho, Portuguese biscoito. May be decomposed as bis + cuit.
Pronunciation
Noun
biscuit m (plural biscuits)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Arabic: بَسْكَوِيت (baskawīt)
- → Azerbaijani: biskvit
- → Bulgarian: бискви́та (biskvíta)
- → Dutch: biscuit
- → English: biscuit
- → Esperanto: biskvito
- → Ido: bisquito
- → Estonian: biskviit
- → Indonesian: biskuit
- → Italian: biscuit
- → Latvian: biskvīts
- → Lithuanian: biskvitas
- → Macedonian: бискви́т (biskvít)
- → Moroccan Arabic: بسكوي (biskwi)
- → Persian: بیسکوئیت (biskuit)
- → Romanian: biscuit
- → Russian: бискви́т (biskvít)
- → Serbo-Croatian: бѝсквӣт, bìskvīt
- → Turkish: bisküvi
- → Vietnamese: bích quy
Further reading
- “biscuit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from French biscuit. Doublet of biscotto.
Noun
biscuit m (uncountable)
Anagrams
Romanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
biscuit m (plural biscuiți)
Declension
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
Further reading
- biscuit in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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