biscuit
Pluralbiscuits
Verbbiscuits, biscuiting, biscuited
Pluralbiscuits
Formsbiscuits, biscuiting, biscuited
- 1A soft, flaky bread roll, usually not sweet, made with baking soda.
Like a soft bread roll you eat warm with breakfast.
She split a warm biscuit and smothered it in sausage gravy.
Grandma's biscuits rose tall and golden in the oven.
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- 2A small, flat baked treat that is either hard and crisp or soft but firm.
Like a small, sweet, crunchy snack you eat with a hot drink.
She dunked a chocolate biscuit into her tea.
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.
1992, Edwina Currie, DiaryHere, biscuit means a cookie.Similarcookie
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- 3A thin, crisp, savory cracker.
Like a thin, crunchy cracker you put cheese on.
He spread soft cheese over a crisp biscuit.
A plate of biscuits and cheese rounded off the meal.
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- 4A pale, light brown color, like that of a baked roll.
Like the pale brown of a freshly baked roll.
She chose a soft biscuit for the living room walls.
The sofa came in a warm shade of biscuit.
- 5A very hard, dry bread once given to sailors and soldiers, baked to last a long time.
Like a very hard, dry cracker that stays good for a long time.
The sailors gnawed on weevil-ridden biscuit for weeks at sea.
Each soldier's ration included salt pork and a few biscuits.
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- 6Pottery that has been baked but not yet coated with a shiny glaze.
Like a clay pot that has been baked but not yet painted shiny.
The shelf held rows of pale biscuit waiting to be glazed.
She painted directly onto the unfinished biscuit.
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- 8To bake clay pottery in a kiln before adding any glaze.
Like baking something partway before you add the final coating.
Potters biscuit their pots before adding color and glaze.
He biscuited the bowl before painting it.
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- 11A hard rubber disk used in the game of ice hockey.
He slid the biscuit past the goalie for the winning goal.
She fired the biscuit into the top corner of the net.
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- 12A plastic card that holds the secret codes for launching a nuclear attack.
The president is said to carry the biscuit at all times.
Aides never let the biscuit out of their sight.
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- 13A round, blown-up tube that people ride on while being pulled across the water.
Like a big floating ring you sit on in the water.
She clung to the biscuit as the boat sped up.
Two kids bounced along on a biscuit behind the speedboat.
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- 14To ride down a river on a floating inner tube for fun.
Like floating down a stream while sitting in a giant ring.
We biscuited down the river all afternoon.
They love to biscuit whenever the water is warm enough.
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Origin
It came through Middle English from Old French "bescuit," like modern French "biscuit."