biscuit
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- noun
- /ˈbɪskɪt/
- UK
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- Would you like a biscuit with your tea?
- cakes and biscuits
I have a portion of chips, a little biscuit, and a tiny little ice lolly.
- I have a portion of chips, a little biscuit, and a tiny little ice lolly.
- While we're doing that, we're going to grind down these biscuits to become noodles.
- And I had a biscuit, right?
- And our job was to end them bitches, end them biscuits before they burned.
Examples
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After this, add in the crushed biscuits and dried fruit if you like.
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To my right is a coffee tray with biscuits and bagels.
Fiction book (1995) -
And I had a biscuit, right?
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Can we have a biscuit too?
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Could one of you all pass me a biscuit?
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Would you like a biscuit?
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No, he had yet to eat; his breakfast biscuit was thinning out.
Fiction book (1991) -
Why are chocolate biscuits so tasty
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Hector dawdles on his way, eating a hard biscuit he takes from his pocket.
Fiction book (1993) -
Other participating students were offered coffee, tea, and cinnamon buns or biscuits for their participation.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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A small flat sweet baked treat often with chocolate chips or nuts
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A sweet spiced cake or cookie flavored with ginger and honey
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A rich, crumbly sweet cookie made with a lot of butter
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A small soft biscuit you make by dropping dough from a spoon and baking
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A rich biscuit made with lots of butter and sugar, crisp and crumbly
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A small sweet cake or bun often made with dried fruit and served with tea
A small flat sweet cookie that people eat with tea
A small flat baked treat made from dough rolled and cut before baking
A small flat sweet baked treat often eaten with tea or milk
A dry crunchy Italian cookie baked twice, often with nuts, eaten with coffee or tea
A thin slice of sweet bread baked twice until it is hard and crisp
Idioms
- Informal
A funny phrase people say when they cannot believe something
Compounds
A small fluffy bread that uses baking powder and people often eat for breakfast or as a side
How Crisp
Surface Forms
Etymology
Biscuit comes from old parts bis 'twice' and coctus 'cooked'. It originally meant 'twice-cooked' and so was made very dry and crisp, which is why a British biscuit is a small, crunchy snack for tea.