noun pl. biscuits -·cuits or biscuit -·cuit

1. Chiefly Brit. a crisp, unleavened wafer; cracker or cookie
2. ☆
   1. a quick bread, made light by baking powder, soda, or yeast, and baked in small pieces
   2. any of these pieces
3. light brown; tan
4. pottery or porcelain after the first firing and before glazing

Etymology: 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