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Definitions for Biscuit

[1] a kind of bread in small, soft cakes, raised with baking powder or soda, or sometimes with yeast; scone.
[2] Chiefly British . a dry and crisp or hard bread in thin, flat cakes, made without yeast or other raising agent; a cracker. a cookie.
[3] a pale-brown color.
[4] Also called bisque. Ceramics . unglazed earthenware or porcelain after firing.
[5] Also called preform. a piece of plastic or the like, prepared for pressing into a phonograph record.
[6] having the color biscuit.
[7] a cookie or cracker.
[8] British a small flat dry sweet or plain cake of many varieties, baked from a dough US and Canadian word: cookie
[9] US and Canadian a kind of small roll similar to a muffin
[10] a pale brown or yellowish-grey colour (as adjective ) biscuit gloves
[11] Also called: bisque earthenware or porcelain that has been fired but not glazed
[12] take the biscuit slang to be regarded (by the speaker) as the most surprising thing that could have occurred

Words related to Biscuit

beige, drab, khaki, brownish, tan, cream, taupe, camel, off-white, wafer, cake, cookie, cracker, candy, demeanor, visage, mien, pretzel, brown, natural

Words nearby Biscuit

bisayas, biscay, biscay green, biscayne bay, biscotto, biscuit, biscuit bread, biscuit tortoni, biscuit ware, biscuit-fired, bise

Origin of Biscuit

11300–50; Middle English bysquyte < Middle French biscuit (Medieval Latin biscoctus ), variant of bescuit seamen's bread, literally, twice cooked, equivalent to bes bis1 + cuit, past participle of cuire < Latin coquere to cook1

Other words from Biscuit

bis·cuit·like , adjective

Word origin for Biscuit

C14: from Old French, from (pain ) bescuit twice-cooked (bread), from bes bis + cuire to cook, from Latin coquere

Synonyms for Biscuit

beige, brownish, drab, khaki, bronze, brown, buff, cream, ecru, gold, natural, olive, saddle, sand, suntan, umber, leather-colored, olive-brown, tawny, yellowish