bis·cuit (b s kt)n. pl. bis·cuits 1. A small cake of shortened bread leavened with baking powder or soda. 2. Chiefly British a. A thin, crisp cracker. b. A cookie. 3. A pale brown. 4. pl. biscuit Clay that has been fired once but not glazed. Also called bisque2. [Middle English bisquit, from Old French biscuit, from Medieval Latin bis coctus : Latin bis, twice; see dwo- in Indo-European roots + Latin coctus, past participle of coquere, to cook; see pekw- in Indo-European roots.] |
biscuit [ˈbɪskɪt]
n
1. (Cookery) Brit a small flat dry sweet or plain cake of many varieties, baked from a dough US and Canadian word cookie
2. (Cookery) US and Canadian a kind of small roll similar to a muffin
3. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours)
a. a pale brown or yellowish-grey colour
b. (as adjective) biscuit gloves
4. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Ceramics) Also called bisque earthenware or porcelain that has been fired but not glazed
take the biscuit Slang to be regarded (by the speaker) as the most surprising thing that could have occurred
[from Old French, from (pain) bescuit twice-cooked (bread), from bes bis + cuire to cook, from Latin coquere]
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| Noun | 1. | biscuit - small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda quick bread - breads made with a leavening agent that permits immediate baking rolled biscuit - biscuit made from dough rolled and cut drop biscuit - biscuit made from dough with enough milk that it can be dropped from a spoon baking-powder biscuit - leavened with baking powder buttermilk biscuit, soda biscuit - very tender biscuit partially leavened with buttermilk and soda hardtack, pilot biscuit, pilot bread, sea biscuit, ship biscuit - very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple |
| 2. |  biscuit - any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)cake - baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat tea biscuit, teacake - flat semisweet cookie or biscuit usually served with tea dog biscuit - a hard biscuit for dogs butter cookie - cookie containing much butter spice cookie - cookie flavored with spices almond cookie, almond crescent - very rich cookie containing ground almonds; usually crescent-shaped brownie - square or bar of very rich chocolate cake usually with nuts macaroon - chewy cookie usually containing almond paste kiss - a cookie made of egg whites and sugar ladyfinger - small finger-shaped sponge cake anise cookie - cookie made without butter and flavored with anise seed molasses cookie - very spicy cookies sweetened partially with molasses oreo, oreo cookie - chocolate cookie with white cream filling raisin-nut cookie - cookie filled with a paste of raisins and nuts refrigerator cookie - dough formed into a roll and chilled in the refrigerator then sliced and baked raisin cookie - cookie containing raisins fruit bar - cookies containing chopped fruits either mixed in the dough or spread between layers of dough then baked and cut in bars sugar cookie - cookies sprinkled with granulated sugar oatmeal cookie - cookies containing rolled oats chocolate chip cookie, Toll House cookie - cookies containing chocolate chips fortune cookie - thin folded wafer containing a maxim on a slip of paper gingerbread man - gingerbread cut in the shape of a person wafer - a small thin crisp cake or cookie granola bar - cookie bar made of granola Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom |
biscuit
noun
Biscuits
abernethy, bannock (Scot.), Bath Oliver, bourbon, brandy snap, captain's biscuit, caramel wafer, chocolate digestive, cookie (chiefly U.S. & Canad.), cracker, cracknel, cream cracker, crispbread, digestive, Empire biscuit, fairing, farl, flapjack, Florentine, garibaldi, gingerbread man, ginger nut or ginger snap, graham cracker (U.S.), hardtack, ship's biscuit, pilot biscuit, or sea biscuit, Jaffa cake (trademark), langue de chat, lebkuchen, love letter, macaroon, matzo, oatcake, petit four, pretzel, ratafia, rich tea, rusk, shortbread, shortcake, soda biscuit, sweetmeal biscuit or digestive, Tararua biscuit (N.Z.), tea biscuit, wafer, water biscuit Translations
biscuit [ˈbɪskɪt] n
biscuit
n
(Brit) → Keks m; (= dog biscuit) → Hundekuchen m; that takes/you take the biscuit! (Brit inf) → das übertrifft alles or (negatively) → schlägt dem Fass den Boden aus
(US) → Brötchen nt
(= porcelain: also biscuit-ware) → Biskuitporzellan nt
(= colour) → Beige nt
adj (colour) → beige
biscuit [ˈbɪskɪt] n (Brit) → biscotto (Am) → panino al latte
to take the biscuit (fam) → essere assolutamente incredibile
biscuit [ˈbɪskɪt] n (Brit) → biscotto (Am) → panino al latte
to take the biscuit (fam) → essere assolutamente incredibile
to take the biscuit (fam) → essere assolutamente incredibile
biscuit [ˈbɪskɪt] n (Brit) → biscotto (Am) → panino al latte
to take the biscuit (fam) → essere assolutamente incredibile
n biscuit [ˈbiskit]
1 (Americanˈcookie) a crisp, sweet piece of dough baked in small flat cakes. beskuitjie بَسْكوت бисквита sušenka kiks; småkage der Keks μπισκότο galleta küpsis بیسکویت keksi biscuit בִּיסקְווִיט बिस्कुट keks, kolačić aprósütemény biskuit smákaka, kex; tvíbaka biscotto ビスケット (미국) 쿠키 sausainis biskvīts, sauss cepums biskut koekje kjeks, småkake herbatnik bolacha biscuit (сухое) печенье sušienka keks biskvit kex, biskvi (อเมริกา) คุกกี้ bisküvi; kurabiye 餅乾 сухе печиво پسکٹ bánh bích quy 饼干
2 a similar savoury flat cake. soutbeskuitjie بَسْكوت бисквита suchar småkage der Kuchen αλμυρό μπισκότο galleta kook کلوچه pikkuleipä gâteau sec עוּגִיָה @@@עוּגִייָה$$$ बिस्कुट नुमा केक keks keksz kue pipih þurrkaka; sandkaka biscotto クラッカー 쿠키와 유사한 케이크 biskvitinis pyragaitis biskvīta kūciņa biskut cracker småkake biszkopt biscoito бисквитный пирог suchár piškot keks småkaka คุกกี้ gevrek, peksimet 鹹薄餅 коржик کیک کی ایک قسم bánh dẹt nhỏ 饼
3 (American) a small soft round cake. koekie خُبْزات شَطائِر кръгла торта vdolek bolle; scone das weiche Brötchen πιτάκι bizcocho küpsis کلوچه pulla petit gâteau לַחמָנִיָה @@@לַחמָנִייָה$$$ मुलायम गोल केक kolačić lángos kue kecil mjúkt matarbrauð dolcetto 丸パン (미국) 작고 부드러운 케이크 bandelė maizīte; bulciņa biskut koekje bolle (bakepulverbakst), scone biszkopcik queque бисквитная булочка biskvit kolaček keks slät bulle (อเมริกา) เค้าชนิดหนึ่งก้อนกลมเล็ก kek (美國)小圓餅 бісквіт چھوٹا نرم گول کیک bánh bơ tròn 小软饼（美），小点心
biscuit → بسكويت sušenka kiks Keks μπισκότο galleta keksi biscuit keks biscotto ビスケット 비스킷 biscuit kjeks herbatnik bolacha печенье kex ขนมปังกรอบ bisküvi bánh quy 饼干
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