a small flat dry sweet or plain cake of many varieties, baked from a dough
US and Canadian word: cookiea pale brown or yellowish-grey colour - Also called: bisque
earthenware or porcelain that has been fired but not glazed - take the biscuit ⇒
to be regarded (by the speaker) as the most surprising thing that could have occurred
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bis•cuit /ˈbɪskɪt/USA pronunciation
n. [countable]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- Fooda small, soft, raised bread, leavened with baking soda:biscuits and gravy for dinner.
- Food, British TermsChiefly Brit.
- a crisp flat bread made without leavening;
cracker:a plain biscuit to calm your stomach. - a cookie:biscuits and tea.
- a crisp flat bread made without leavening;
bis•cuit
(bis′kit),USA pronunciation n.
adj.
bis′cuit•like′, adj.
bis•cuit (bēs kwē′),USA pronunciation n. [French.]
- Fooda kind of bread in small, soft cakes, raised with baking powder or soda, or sometimes with yeast.
- Food, British Terms[Chiefly Brit.]
- a dry and crisp or hard bread in thin, flat cakes, made without yeast or other raising agent;
a cracker. - a cookie.
- a dry and crisp or hard bread in thin, flat cakes, made without yeast or other raising agent;
- a pale-brown color.
- CeramicsAlso called bisque. unglazed earthenware or porcelain after firing.
- Also called preform. a piece of plastic or the like, prepared for pressing into a phonograph record.
adj.
- having the color biscuit.
- Latin coquere to cook1
- Middle French biscuit (Medieval Latin biscoctus), variant of bescuit seamen's bread, literally, twice cooked, equivalent. to bes bis1 + cuit, past participle of cuire
- Middle English bysquyte 1300–50
bis•cuit (bēs kwē′),USA pronunciation n. [French.]
- Fooda cookie or cracker.
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