Definitions for biscuit

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biscuit bis·cuit

Spelling: [bis-kit]

IPA: /ˈbɪs kɪt/

Biscuit is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 99 anagrams from letters in biscuit (bciistu).

Definitions for biscuit

noun

1. a kind of bread in small, soft cakes, raised with baking powder or soda, or sometimes with yeast; scone.
2. Chiefly British. a dry and crisp or hard bread in thin, flat cakes, made without yeast or other raising agent; a cracker. a cookie.
3. a pale-brown color.
4. Also called bisque. Ceramics. unglazed earthenware or porcelain after firing.
5. Also called preform. a piece of plastic or the like, prepared for pressing into a phonograph record.
6. a cookie or cracker.

adjective

1. having the color biscuit.

Origin of biscuit

1300-50; Middle English bysquyte Middle French biscuit (Medieval Latin biscoctus), variant of bescuit seamen's bread, literally, twice cooked, equivalent to bes Examples for biscuit

Some was liquid and some gelatinous, and some firm like bread or biscuit.

To Massena he writes, “Let me know if your biscuit and bread arrangements are yet completed.”

They wake you in the middle of the night, give you tea and a biscuit, and then you start your 12-hour shift.

There was not a crumb of biscuit, and only half a pound of coffee.

Drop the biscuit batter by the heaping tablespoonful onto a prepared baking sheets allowing about 1- inch between mounds.

A parliamentary answer, and he gets a biscuit tin thrown at his head for his troubles.

One glass of lemonade, one sandwich, one biscuit—Oh dear me!

It is a parliamentary answer, and Bloom gets a biscuit tin thrown at his head for his, shall we say, troubles.

What will he actually do all day, in between going on tours of biscuit factories?

But he took me to his own house for a glass of sherry and a biscuit, and there it wasn't so rotten.