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Biscuit

//ˈbɪskᵻt// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, countable, rare, sometimes, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    any of various small flat sweet cakes wordnet
  3. 3
    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. Canada, US, countable, rare, uncountable
  4. 4
    small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda wordnet
  5. 5
    A cracker. Ireland, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, UK, countable, uncountable

    "cheese and biscuits"

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  1. 6
    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, especially, uncountable

    "Near-synonyms: tack, bread"

  2. 7
    A form of unglazed earthenware. countable, uncountable

    "Charm'd by your touch, the kneaded clay refines, / The biscuit hardens, the enamel shines […]."

  3. 8
    A light brown colour. countable, uncountable
  4. 9
    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. countable, uncountable
  5. 10
    A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack. US, countable, slang, uncountable
  6. 11
    A handgun, especially a revolver. US, countable, slang, uncountable

    "I shoot my biscuit in the air until the sky is gone"

  7. 12
    A puck (hockey puck). countable, uncountable
  8. 13
    The head. countable, slang, uncountable

    "Damn, damn, what they say about me? I don't know man, fuck is on your biscuit"

  9. 14
    An inner tube used in the sport of tubing, or biscuiting. New-Zealand, countable, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To fire (pottery) in a kiln, without a ceramic glaze. transitive
  2. 2
    To take part in the sport of tubing, riding down a river on an inner tube. New-Zealand, intransitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

PIE word *dwóh₁ Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwís Proto-Italic *dwis Old Latin duis Early Medieval Latin bis Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō Early Medieval Latin coquō Early Medieval Latin coctus Early Medieval Latin biscoctus Old French bescuitbor. Middle English bisquyte English biscuit From earlier bisket, from Middle English bisquyte, from Old French bescuit (French biscuit); doublet of biscotto.

Etymology 2

PIE word *dwóh₁ Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwís Proto-Italic *dwis Old Latin duis Early Medieval Latin bis Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō Early Medieval Latin coquō Early Medieval Latin coctus Early Medieval Latin biscoctus Old French bescuitbor. Middle English bisquyte English biscuit From earlier bisket, from Middle English bisquyte, from Old French bescuit (French biscuit); doublet of biscotto.

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