biscuit
/ˈbɪs.kɪt/
Frequency: 3.45 in modern English
Meaning
noun
A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.
Australian usage; Canadian usage; Indian usage; New Zealand usage; British usage; Countable
noun
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.
Canadian usage; American usage; Countable; Uncountable
noun
Any of several hard bread or breadlike foodstuffs, especially those formerly supplied to naval ships and armies, made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes, and slowly baked, and which often became infested with weevils.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Weighed myself at the gym and have hit 10st 8lb, a sure sign of things getting out of control—so I can’t even console myself with a chocolate biscuit."
- "cheese and biscuits"
- "water biscuits"
- "digestive biscuits"
- "Near-synonyms: tack, bread"
- "He was a long, earnest man, and though born on an icy coast, seemed well adapted to endure hot latitudes, his flesh being hard as twice-baked biscuit."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: bisquyte, bescuit
Usage
- Australian usage
- Canadian usage
- Indian usage
- New Zealand usage
- British usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- American usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Food.