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biscuit

Syllables: bis·cuit/ˈbɪs.kɪt/

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New Zealand/ˈbəs.kət/

biscuit noun: a small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.

biscuit: a small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie
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Noun

biscuit (countable and uncountable, plural biscuits)

  1. (Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, UK) A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.
    • Weighed myself at the gym and have hit 10st 8lb, a sure sign of things getting out of control—so I can’t even console myself with a chocolate biscuit.1992 October 3, Edwina Currie, Diary
  2. (Canada, US, rare) 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.
  3. (Ireland, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, UK) A cracker.
    • cheese and biscuits
    • water biscuits
  4. (especially) 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.
    • Near-synonyms: tack, bread
    • He was a long, earnest man, and though born on an icy coast, seemed well adapted to endure hot latitudes, his flesh being hard as twice-baked biscuit.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Knights and Squires”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 125
    Synonyms:
    tack, bread
  5. A form of unglazed earthenware.
    • Charm'd by your touch, the kneaded clay refines, / The biscuit hardens, the enamel shines […].1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 87
    • In 1740, Thomas Whieldon of Little Fenton made 'toys' in either the clay or biscuit state. They were coloured with zaffre, copper, manganese, etc. and glazed with black, red or white lead.1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 202
  6. A light brown colour.
  7. 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.
  8. (US, slang) A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.
  9. (US, slang) A handgun, especially a revolver.
    • I shoot my biscuit in the air until the sky is gone2007, Army of the Pharaohs, “Bloody Tears”, in Ritual of Battle
  10. (shuffleboard) A puck (hockey puck).
  11. (slang) The head.
    • Damn, damn, what they say about me?
      I don't know man, fuck is on your biscuit2012 April 2, Nicki Minaj, “Beez in the Trap” (track 4), in Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
    • Me and my down ass nigga get twisted
      Nigga get to trippin', knock the gravy out your biscuit2013 September 17, Jeezy featured by YG, “My Nigga”, in My Krazy Life, track 7
  12. (New Zealand) An inner tube used in the sport of tubing, or biscuiting.
  13. (US, slang) A young woman.

Verb

biscuit (third-person singular simple present biscuits, present participle biscuiting, simple past and past participle biscuited)

  1. (transitive) To fire (pottery) in a kiln, without a ceramic glaze.
  2. (New Zealand, intransitive) To take part in the sport of tubing, riding down a river on an inner tube.

biscuit meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

biscuit in Hindi

small, flat baked good — see also cookie, cracker
बिस्कुट biskuṭ

biscuit in Tamil

small, flat baked good — see also cookie, cracker
பிஸ்கட் piskaṭ, மாச்சில்லு māccillu, ஈரட்டி īraṭṭi

biscuit in Marathi

small, flat baked good — see also cookie, cracker
बिस्किट biskiṭ

biscuit in Urdu

small, flat baked good — see also cookie, cracker
بِسْکِٹ biskiṭ, بِسْکُٹ biskuṭ
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biscuit in Bengali
বিস্কুট biskuṭ
biscuit in Malayalam
ബിസ്ക്കറ്റ്
biscuit in Punjabi
ਬਿਸਕੁਟ biskuṭ
biscuit in Gujarati
બિસ્કિટ biskiṭ
biscuit in Tagalog
biskwit
biscuit in Arabic
بَسْكَوِيت baskawīt, بِسْكْوِي biskwī, بَسْكُوت baskūt, بِسْكِت biskit
biscuit in Malay
biskut
biscuit in Indonesian
biskuit
biscuit in Thai
บิสกิต bís-gìt, ขนมปังกรอบ kà-nǒm-bpang-grɔ̀ɔp
biscuit in Vietnamese
bánh quy
biscuit in Myanmar
ဘီစကွတ် bhica.kwat, ဆိတ်နို့မုန့် hcitnui.mun.

Examples of biscuit in a sentence

  • An overfired biscuit has insufficient porosity for glazing.2004, Frank Hamer with Janet Hamer, The Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques, 5th edition, London; Philadelphia, Penn.: A & C...
  • […] Risk it, you get slapped in your biscuit2022 January 12, YOUNGESTSAV, “District”, PressPlay, 0:26 and oftener:

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Synonyms of biscuit

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Forms of biscuit

Noun
pluralbiscuits
Verb
third-person singular presentbiscuits
present participlebiscuiting
past participlebiscuited
pastbiscuited

Plural of biscuit: biscuits

Origin of biscuit

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.

Words formed from biscuit

Phrases with biscuit

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Words that rhyme with biscuit

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Questions about biscuit

What does biscuit mean?
Biscuit means a small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.
What is biscuit in Hindi?
Biscuit in Hindi is बिस्कुट (biskuṭ). See Biscuit meaning in Hindi.
How do you use biscuit in a sentence?
An overfired biscuit has insufficient porosity for glazing.
What part of speech is biscuit?
Biscuit can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce biscuit?
Biscuit is pronounced /ˈbɪs.kɪt/.
What is the plural of biscuit?
The plural of biscuit is biscuits.

Words near biscuit in the dictionary

  1. biscribed
  2. biscript
  3. biscriptal
  4. biscriptual
  5. biscrolled
  6. biscuit
  7. biscuit beetle
  8. biscuit beetles
  9. biscuit bomber
  10. biscuit bombers
  11. biscuit bread

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: biscuit (page history and authors); biscuit (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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