English Explanatory Dictionary

biscuit

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.
  2. 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.
  3. A cracker.
  4. 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.
  5. A form of unglazed earthenware.
  6. A light brown colour.
  7. 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.
  8. A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.
  9. A handgun, especially a revolver.
  10. A puck (hockey puck).
  11. The head.
  12. An inner tube used in the sport of tubing, or biscuiting.
verb
  1. To fire (pottery) in a kiln, without a ceramic glaze.
  2. To take part in the sport of tubing, riding down a river on an inner tube.

Pronunciation

/ˈbɪs.kɪt/ En-uk-biscuit.ogg En-us-biscuit.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-biscuit.wav EN-AU ck1 biscuit.ogg /ˈbəs.kət/ /bɪs.keʈ/ [ˈbɪs.kë̞ʈ] /bɪs.kɪʈ/ [ˈbɪs.kɪʈ] /bɪs.kʊʈ/ [ˈbɪs.kʊʈ] /bɪs.kəʈ/ [ˈbɪs.kɐʈ] /ˈbis.kwɪt/

Word forms

biscuit biscuits biscuiting biscuited

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

tack bread biscuitware biscuitry dowel finger joint glue strip spline

Related words

cookie cracknel hardtack macaroon pilot bread soda cracker tang

Derived words

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