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Bourbon

Bourbon

1 3.2
A chocolate biscuit with a chocolate cream filling popular in the UK
  • noun
  • /ˈbɔːbən/
  • UK
translation icon : galleta Bourbon
  • Big Ben shiso bourbon cookie.
  • chocolate Bourbon

Examples

  • Two bourbons.

    Mystery Team (2009)

  • Oh, how about a bourbon biscuit?

    Shooting Fish (1997)

  • I suspect that everyone in this audience has at some time taken a custard cream or a bourbon biscuit and you take the top one off.

  • I love to have a bourbon biscuit with my tea in the afternoon.

  • At the party, they served chocolate cake and bourbon biscuits for dessert.

  • She always keeps a pack of bourbon biscuits in her lunchbox.

Synonyms

biscuit
vsBourbon
  • UK
74 1.0

A small sweet flat cake that you eat as a snack

is a specific rectangular chocolate flavored sandwich within that general snack category
Oreo cookie
vsBourbon
4 1.0

A chocolate sandwich biscuit with sweet white cream between two dark biscuits

has chocolate cream filling and a rectangular shape popular in the UK

Compounds

Bourbon dynasty
7.8

A European royal family that ruled France and later Spain and southern Italy

Surface Forms

Bourbon singular
Bourbons plural

Etymology

Bourbon the biscuit was named after the royal House of Bourbon, so the sweet got a French, fancy name. So a Bourbon in the UK is a chocolate biscuit with cream that keeps that royal name.