biscuit
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.
Other meanings
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.
A form of unglazed earthenware.
A kind of
- quick bread
Kinds of biscuit
- rolled biscuit
- drop biscuit
- baking-powder biscuit
- soda biscuit
- pilot biscuit
Related words
- biccy
- biscuiteer
- Biscuitgate
- biscuitroot
- bisquick
- doggie biscuit
- doggy biscuit
- Abernethy biscuit
- air biscuit
- Anzac biscuit
- arse biscuit
- Garibaldi biscuit
Word history
From Old French "bescuit".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “biscuit” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.