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biscuit

1

[ bis-kit ]

noun

  1. a kind of bread in small, soft cakes, raised with baking powder or soda, or sometimes with yeast; scone.
  2. Chiefly British.
    1. a dry and crisp or hard bread in thin, flat cakes, made without yeast or other raising agent; a cracker.
    2. a cookie.
  3. a pale-brown color.
  4. Also called bisque. Ceramics. unglazed earthenware or porcelain after firing.
  5. Also called preform. a piece of plastic or the like, prepared for pressing into a phonograph record.


adjective

  1. having the color biscuit.

biscuit

2

[ bees-kwee ]

noun

French.
  1. a cookie or cracker.

biscuit

/ ˈ²úɪ²õ°ìɪ³Ù /

noun

  1. a small flat dry sweet or plain cake of many varieties, baked from a dough US and Canadian wordcookie
  2. a kind of small roll similar to a muffin
    1. a pale brown or yellowish-grey colour
    2. ( as adjective )

      biscuit gloves

  3. Also calledbisque earthenware or porcelain that has been fired but not glazed
  4. take the biscuit slang.
    to be regarded (by the speaker) as the most surprising thing that could have occurred
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of biscuit1

1300–50; Middle English bysquyte < Middle French biscuit ( Medieval Latin biscoctus ), variant of bescuit seamen's bread, literally, twice cooked, equivalent to bes bis 1 + cuit, past participle of cuire < Latin coquere to cook 1
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of biscuit1

C14: from Old French, from ( pain ) bescuit twice-cooked (bread), from bes bis + cuire to cook, from Latin coquere
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As a "last resort" once all other food is exhausted, it has emergency stocks of fortified nutritional biscuits for 415,000 people.

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Jannat, who runs a tiny shop selling biscuits and milk cartons, often can't afford the bus fare to attend protests demanding information about the missing.

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Speaking of layers, lamination is the secret weapon of high-end pastry and it’s the technique worth borrowing for biscuits.

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In addition to my Boozy Fish Stew, I am giving you a little happy St Patrick’s Day lagniappe: a stand alone recipe that turns out a good biscuit in no time flat.

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The meeting took place over tea and biscuits, is understood to have lasted about 50 minutes and solely focused on Trump's golf resorts, according to his son.

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