🍪 A sweet cookie 🥯 A soft bread

biscuit

45 1.0

A small soft round bread roll often eaten with butter

noun
/ˈbɪskɪt/

: panecillo

I remembered the smell of buttermilk biscuits and sweet country ham.
hot biscuits

Can I get a sausage egg and cheese biscuit and a hash brown?

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Examples

And I have brought some of your favorite apple biscuits.

The Householder (1963)
The meal was $5 for 3 chicken tenders, 1 biscuit, 1 side, and a drink.

Blog text (10)
You know, I took some biscuit out there to the lake to feed to some ducks.
I gave him a dog biscuit, but then Oscar wanted one too.

Fiction book (1991)
I had one sausage biscuit.

Super Size Me (2004)
Please help yourself to tea and biscuits already in the kitchen.

Fiction book (1996)
This place has the best biscuits and gravy ever.
Today is starting out kind of exciting because I'm making some biscuits and gravy right now.
So the boys really like these Velveeta soft baked biscuits and they're simple to like just Chuck into their lunch bag to take with them.
Can I please have a biscuit with my tea?

Synonyms

bun

vsbiscuit

164 1.0

A small round bread roll that is plain or sweet

is a soft quick bread leavened by powder or soda rather than yeast

buttermilk biscuit

vsbiscuit

1 2.3

A soft, flaky small bread made with buttermilk and often eaten warm

is similar but names the small soft round leavened by powder or soda

drop biscuit

vsbiscuit

1 3.5

A small soft biscuit you make by dropping dough from a spoon and baking

is defined by leavening agents rather than by shaping method

baking-powder biscuit

vsbiscuit

2.6

A small fluffy bread that uses baking powder and people often eat for breakfast or as a side

is the small round soft version leavened by powder or soda not yeast

soda biscuit

vsbiscuit

2.2

A soft, light round bread made with baking soda and buttermilk

is the general small soft version leavened by powder or soda not yeast

rolled biscuit

vsbiscuit

2.9

A small flat baked treat made from dough rolled and cut before baking

is identified by its quick leavening, not by rolling or cutting

Idioms

to take the biscuit

1 9.9

To be the most annoying or surprising thing of all

butter my butt and call me a biscuit

Informal

9.9

A funny phrase people say when they cannot believe something

to risk it for the biscuit

Slang

9.6

Take a chance to get a reward

Compounds

dog biscuit

4 1.0

A hard dry food for dogs often used as a treat

buttermilk biscuit

1 2.3

A soft, flaky small bread made with buttermilk and often eaten warm

disco biscuit

NSFW

1 9.9

A slang name for the illegal drug ecstasy often taken at clubs and raves

drop biscuit

1 3.5

A small soft biscuit you make by dropping dough from a spoon and baking

dry biscuit

1 2.5

A hard plain baked snack with little moisture or taste

Brussels biscuit

Archaic

9.3

A thin slice of sweet bread baked twice until it is hard and crisp

baking-powder biscuit

2.6

A small fluffy bread that uses baking powder and people often eat for breakfast or as a side

homemade dog biscuit

1.8

A snack someone bakes at home for a dog

ratafia biscuit

Archaic

9.9

A small crisp biscuit that tastes of bitter almond or sweet liqueur

rolled biscuit

2.9

A small flat baked treat made from dough rolled and cut before baking

pilot biscuit

Archaic

9.9

A very hard dry biscuit that sailors kept on ships to eat

sea biscuit

Archaic

9.5

A very hard unsalted biscuit sailors used to eat on long sea voyages

tea biscuit

1.6

A small flat sweet cookie that people eat with tea

ship biscuit

Archaic

9.9

A very hard dry bread sailors soaked before eating on long sea trips

soda biscuit

2.2

A soft, light round bread made with baking soda and buttermilk

water biscuit

3.0

A thin, crisp biscuit often eaten with cheese

How Fluffy

muffin

295 1.0

roll

302 1.8

biscuit

45 1.0

scone

38 1.9

crispbread

3.3

Surface Forms

biscuit singular

biscuits plural

Etymology

Biscuit comes from the same old parts bis 'twice' and coctus 'cooked', but the meaning changed in North America. So an American biscuit became a small, soft bread baked quickly, keeping the old name even though the food is now fluffy rather than hard.