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biscotto

biscotto

5.8
A dry crunchy Italian cookie baked twice, often with nuts, eaten with coffee or tea
  • noun
  • /bɪˈskɑːtoʊ/
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  • I enjoyed a delicious biscotto with my coffee at the café this morning.

So I said I went, you know, and I had a biscotti, you know, with coffee last week.

Examples

  • So for me, for example, chocolate chip cookies, there are biscotti, Yeah.

  • With a chocolate biscotto?

    Fiction book (2002)

  • So I said I went, you know, and I had a biscotti, you know, with coffee last week.

    Stanford

  • Terry ate a biscotto and frowned at her hands some more.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • What makes it a biscotti and not say a loaf of bread?

  • Bite into a biscotto and let it crumble down the front of your blouse.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Jayden made this homemade biscotti and boop.

  • So I'm going to give him one of these Heinz biscotti biscuits.

  • After dinner, I savored a sweet biscotto dipped in my tea.

  • She offered me a biscotto, which was perfectly crunchy and filled with almonds.

Synonyms

Florentine
vsbiscotto
1 6.4

A thin sweet biscuit with nuts and dried fruit often covered with chocolate on one side

is drier and baked twice served with coffee or tea
raisin-nut cookie
vsbiscotto
2.0

A cookie with a sweet raisin and nut filling

is dry twice baked and crunchy rather than filled with paste

How Crunchy

rusk
5 5.9
biscotto
5.8
cookie
  • US
774 1.0

Surface Forms

biscotto singular
biscotti plural

Etymology

Biscotto comes from Italian and from Latin parts bis 'twice' and coctus 'cooked'. So a biscotto is literally 'cooked twice', which helps explain why it is a dry, crunchy cookie often dunked in coffee, the same idea behind the English word biscuit.