biscuit
The definition of a biscuit is a baked good made using flour, shortening, baking powder or soda and other ingredients.
(noun)- An example of a biscuit is a buttermilk biscuit served with gravy.
- An example of a biscuit in the UK is a sweet cracker served at tea time.
See biscuit in Webster's New World College Dictionary
- Chiefly Brit. a crisp, unleavened wafer; cracker or cookie
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- a quick bread, made light by baking powder, soda, or yeast, and baked in small pieces
- any of these pieces
- light brown; tan
- pottery or porcelain after the first firing and before glazing
Origin: ME bisquit, besquit < OFr bescuit (altered, under infl. of OIt biscotto) < ML biscoctum < (panis) bis coctus, (bread) twice baked < L bis, twice (see binary) + coctus, pp. of coquere, cook
See biscuit in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun pl. bis·cuits
- A small cake of shortened bread leavened with baking powder or soda.
- Chiefly British a. A thin, crisp cracker.b. A cookie.
- A pale brown.
- pl. biscuit biscuit Clay that has been fired once but not glazed. Also called bisque2.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English bisquit
Origin: , from Old French biscuit
Origin: , from Medieval Latin bis coctus
Origin: : Latin bis, twice; see dwo- in Indo-European roots
Origin: + Latin coctus
Origin: , past participle of coquere, to cook; see pekw- in Indo-European roots
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