biscuit.
A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.
Meaning & usage
A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.
A small, usually soft and flaky bread, generally made with baking soda, which is similar in texture to a scone but which is usually not sweet.
A cracker.
cheese and biscuits
water biscuits
Any of several hard bread or breadlike foodstuffs, especially those formerly supplied to naval ships and armies, made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes, and slowly baked, and which often became infested with weevils.
A form of unglazed earthenware.
A light brown colour.
A thin oval wafer of wood or other material inserted into mating slots on pieces of material to be joined to provide gluing surface and strength in shear.
A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.
A handgun, especially a revolver.
A puck (hockey puck).
The head.
An inner tube used in the sport of tubing, or biscuiting.
A young woman.
Where this word comes from
PIE word *dwóh₁ Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ ▲ Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu. Proto-Indo-European *dwís Proto-Italic *dwis Old Latin duis Latin bis Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō Latin *quoquō Latin coquō Latin coctus Early Medieval Latin biscoctus Old French bescuitbor. Middle English bisquyte English biscuit From earlier bisket, from Middle English bisquyte, from Old French bescuit (French biscuit); doublet of biscotto.
To fire (pottery) in a kiln, without a ceramic glaze.
To take part in the sport of tubing, riding down a river on an inner tube.
Where this word comes from
PIE word *dwóh₁ Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ ▲ Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu. Proto-Indo-European *dwís Proto-Italic *dwis Old Latin duis Latin bis Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō Latin *quoquō Latin coquō Latin coctus Early Medieval Latin biscoctus Old French bescuitbor. Middle English bisquyte English biscuit From earlier bisket, from Middle English bisquyte, from Old French bescuit (French biscuit); doublet of biscotto.
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