biscuit
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: biscuits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: biscuits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: biscuiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: biscuited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: biscuited
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
India
Ireland
New-Zealand
UK
countable
sometimes
uncommon
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
countable
rare
uncountable
gloss: A cracker.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
Malaysia
Philippines
Singapore
UK
countable
uncountable
examples: cheese and biscuits
water biscuits
digestive biscuits
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
especially
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: tack, bread
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.
gloss: A form of unglazed earthenware.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Charm'd by your touch, the kneaded clay refines, / The biscuit hardens, the enamel shines […].
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.
An overfired biscuit has insufficient porosity for glazing.
gloss: A light brown colour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: A handgun, especially a revolver.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: I shoot my biscuit in the air until the sky is gone
gloss: A puck (hockey puck).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The head.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: Damn, damn, what they say about me?
I don't know man, fuck is on your biscuit
Me and my down ass nigga get twisted
Nigga get to trippin', knock the gravy out your biscuit
Henny right here, I'ma sip it
You try me, it's shots at your biscuit
[…] Risk it, you get slapped in your biscuit
gloss: An inner tube used in the sport of tubing, or biscuiting.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
countable
uncountable
gloss: A young woman.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: To fire (pottery) in a kiln, without a ceramic glaze.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To take part in the sport of tubing, riding down a river on an inner tube.
pos: verb
tags: New-Zealand
intransitive
Related words: cookie
cracknel
hardtack
macaroon
pilot bread
soda cracker
tang
Derived words: Abernethy biscuit
air biscuit
angel 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 star
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
cold 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
mud biscuit
Naples biscuit
pilot biscuit
ratafia biscuit
rice biscuit
rich tea biscuit
risk it for the biscuit
sea biscuit
ship biscuit
shitbiscuit
show biscuit
sledging biscuit
snapper biscuit
soda biscuit
soggy biscuit
son of a biscuit
take the biscuit
tea biscuit
Triscuit
water biscuit
what do you want, a biscuit
whatever butters your biscuit
whisker biscuit
wine biscuit
without tea and biscuits
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