biscuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪskɪt/
ipa: /ˈbis.kwɪt/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈbɪskɛʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /-ʊʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /-ɪʈ/
Forms: form: biscuits
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From earlier bisket, from Middle English bisquyte, from Old French bescuit (French biscuit); doublet of biscotto.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1992 October 3, Edwina Currie, Diary:
glosses: A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.
raw_tags: in the US and the Philippines
glosses: 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.
raw_tags: in Scotland and Guernsey
examples: text: cheese and biscuits
text: water biscuits
text: digestive biscuits
glosses: A cracker.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: tack, bread
text: 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.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Knights and Squires”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 125:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: 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.
examples: text: Charm'd by your touch, the kneaded clay refines, / The biscuit hardens, the enamel shines […].
ref: 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 87:
text: In 1740, Thomas Whieldon of Little Fenton made 'toys' in either the clay or biscuit state. They were coloured with zaffre, copper, manganese, etc. and glazed with black, red or white lead.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 202:
text: An overfired biscuit has insufficient porosity for glazing.
ref: 2004, Frank Hamer with Janet Hamer, The Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques, 5th edition, London; Philadelphia, Penn.: A & C Black; University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 248:
synonyms: biscuitware
biscuitry
glosses: A form of unglazed earthenware.
glosses: A light brown colour.
topics: arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
woodworking
synonyms: dowel
finger joint
glue strip
spline
glosses: 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.
glosses: A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.
examples: text: I shoot my biscuit in the air until the sky is gone
ref: 2007, Army of the Pharaohs, “Bloody Tears”, in Ritual of Battle:
glosses: A handgun, especially a revolver.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
qualifier: shuffleboard
glosses: A puck (hockey puck).
examples: text: Damn, damn, what they say about me?
I don't know man, fuck is on your biscuit
ref: 2012 April 2, Nicki Minaj, “Beez in the Trap” (track 4), in Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded:
text: Me and my down ass nigga get twisted
Nigga get to trippin', knock the gravy out your biscuit
ref: 2013 September 17, Jeezy featured by YG, “My Nigga”, in My Krazy Life, track 7:
text: Henny right here, I'ma sip it
You try me, it's shots at your biscuit
ref: 2019 October 4, Lil Tjay featured by Pop Smoke, “War”, in Meet The Woo 2, track 13 0:47:
text: […] Risk it, you get slapped in your biscuit
ref: 2022 January 12, YOUNGESTSAV, “District”, PressPlay, 0:26 and oftener:
glosses: The head.
glosses: An inner tube used in the sport of tubing, or biscuiting.
Derived terms: Abernethy biscuit
air biscuit
Anzac biscuit
arse biscuit
Belgian biscuit
biccy
bickie
biscuit beetle
biscuit bomber
biscuit bun
biscuit cutter
biscuit-cutter
biscuiteer
biscuit firing
Biscuitgate
biscuit hooks
biscuit jointer
biscuitless
biscuitlike
biscuitroot
biscuit root
biscuits and gravy
biscuit shooter
biscuit tin
biscuit ware
biscuit weight
biscuity
bisquick
bite the biscuit
boudoir biscuit
Bourbon biscuit
butter my butt and call me a biscuit
butter someone's biscuit
cathead biscuit
digestive biscuit
disco biscuit
dog biscuit
doggie biscuit
doggy biscuit
double biscuit
dry biscuit
Empire biscuit
fly biscuit
funeral biscuit
Garibaldi biscuit
German biscuit
Graham biscuit
have the biscuit
Imperial biscuit
Leary biscuit
Lincoln biscuit
Linzer biscuit
make biscuits
Marie biscuit
meat biscuit
Naples biscuit
pilot biscuit
ratafia biscuit
rice biscuit
rich tea biscuit
risk it for the biscuit
sea biscuit
ship biscuit
shitbiscuit
sledging biscuit
snapper biscuit
soda biscuit
soggy biscuit
son of a biscuit
take the biscuit
Triscuit
water biscuit
what do you want, a biscuit
whatever butters your biscuit
whisker biscuit
wine biscuit
without tea and biscuits
Related terms: word: cookie
word: cracknel
word: hardtack
word: macaroon
word: pilot bread
sense: shuffleboard
word: tang
word: soda cracker