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biscuit
bis·cuit B0280800 (bĭs′kĭt)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 hard, dry cracker given to dogs as a treat or dietary supplement.4. A thin, often oblong, waferlike piece of wood, glued into slots to connect larger pieces of wood in a joint.5. A pale brown.6. 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) n1. (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 muffin3. (Colours) a. a pale brown or yellowish-grey colourb. (as adjective): biscuit gloves. 4. (Ceramics) Also called: bisque earthenware or porcelain that has been fired but not glazed5. take the biscuit slang to be regarded (by the speaker) as the most surprising thing that could have occurred[C14: from Old French, from (pain) bescuit twice-cooked (bread), from bes bis + cuire to cook, from Latin coquere]bis•cuit (ˈbɪs kɪt)
n. 1. a small, soft, raised bread, usu. leavened with baking powder or soda. 2. Chiefly Brit. a. a cracker. b. a cookie. 3. a pale brown color. 4. Also called bisque. unglazed earthenware or porcelain after firing. [1300–50; Middle English bysquyte < Middle French biscuit, literally, twice cooked] bis′cuit•like`, adj. Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | biscuit - small round bread leavened with baking-powder or sodaquick bread - breads made with a leavening agent that permits immediate bakingrolled biscuit - biscuit made from dough rolled and cutdrop biscuit - biscuit made from dough with enough milk that it can be dropped from a spoonbaking-powder biscuit - leavened with baking powderbuttermilk biscuit, soda biscuit - very tender biscuit partially leavened with buttermilk and sodahardtack, 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)cookie, cookycake - baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fattea biscuit, teacake - flat semisweet cookie or biscuit usually served with teadog biscuit - a hard biscuit for dogsbutter cookie - cookie containing much butterspice cookie - cookie flavored with spicesalmond cookie, almond crescent - very rich cookie containing ground almonds; usually crescent-shapedbrownie - square or bar of very rich chocolate cake usually with nutsginger nut, ginger snap, gingersnap, snap - a crisp round cookie flavored with gingermacaroon - chewy cookie usually containing almond pastekiss - a cookie made of egg whites and sugarladyfinger - small finger-shaped sponge cakeanise cookie - cookie made without butter and flavored with anise seedmolasses cookie - very spicy cookies sweetened partially with molassesoreo, oreo cookie - chocolate cookie with white cream fillingraisin-nut cookie - cookie filled with a paste of raisins and nutsrefrigerator cookie - dough formed into a roll and chilled in the refrigerator then sliced and bakedraisin cookie - cookie containing raisinsfruit bar - cookies containing chopped fruits either mixed in the dough or spread between layers of dough then baked and cut in barssugar cookie - cookies sprinkled with granulated sugaroatmeal cookie - cookies containing rolled oatschocolate chip cookie, Toll House cookie - cookies containing chocolate chipsfortune cookie - thin folded wafer containing a maxim on a slip of papergingerbread man - gingerbread cut in the shape of a personwafer - a small thin crisp cake or cookiegranola bar - cookie bar made of granolaBritain, 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 |
biscuitnounBiscuits 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 biscuitTranslationsbiscuit (ˈbiskit) noun1. (American ˈcookie) a crisp, sweet piece of dough baked in small flat cakes. 餅乾 饼干2. a similar savoury flat cake. 鹹薄餅 软烤饼3. (American) a small soft round cake. (美國)小圓餅 小软饼（美），小点心 biscuit
bite the biscuit1. To die, break down, or become defunct. We all have to bite the biscuit someday. I drove that truck everywhere for 25 years, but it finally bit the biscuit yesterday.2. To face up to, undertake, or confront some unpleasant or risky situation, action, or responsibility. You were the only person here when the television broke, so you might as well bite the biscuit and tell me the truth. I guess we'd better bite the biscuit and get this over with.See also: biscuit, bitehave had the biscuitTo be no longer functional or useful; to be dead or about to perish. Primarily heard in Canada. This old truck has served me well, but after lasting 20 years, it's finally had the biscuit. Despite the doctor's best efforts, it looked as though I'd had the biscuit.See also: biscuit, havetake the biscuitTo be the most disappointing, annoying, shocking, outrageous, or egregious thing to have happened or been done. (Usually said hyperbolically.) But when I found out that he had been reading through my text messages, well, that took the biscuit! The government is using the taxes from the working class to bail out the banks that ruined the economy? That really takes the biscuit!See also: biscuit, takeair biscuitA fart. I can't believe you let an air biscuit loose in the car. Now we have to smell it all the way home!See also: air, biscuitson of a biscuit1. slang A mean or unpleasant person, especially a man. A minced oath replacing the profane phrase "son of a bitch." Julie's ex-husband was such a mean son of a biscuit, it's no wonder she divorced him. You gosh-darned son of a biscuit! I'm gonna make you pay for that!2. slang An emphatic expression of affection or admiration for a man. That son of a biscuit really pulled through for us when we needed him! Why, you old son of a biscuit! I haven't you in a dog's age!3. slang An inanimate object that is causing one problems or difficulty. My car broke down, and I can't figure out how to fix the son of a biscuit! A: "This stupid son of a biscuit has been giving me problems for weeks!" B: "I think it may be time to just buy a new computer, Tom."4. slang An exclamation of anger, aggravation, pain, or shock. A: "Son of a biscuit!" B: "What's wrong?" A: "The bank just charged me $50 in withdrawal fees!" Ouch, son of a biscuit! Stubbing your toe is the absolute worst!See also: biscuit, of, sonson of a sea biscuit1. slang A mean or unpleasant person, especially a man. A minced oath replacing the profane phrase "son of a bitch." Julie's ex-husband was such a mean son of a sea biscuit, it's no wonder she divorced him. You gosh-darned son of a sea biscuit! I'm gonna make you pay for that!2. slang An emphatic expression of affection or admiration for a man. That son of a sea biscuit really pulled through for us when we needed him! Why, you old son of a sea biscuit! I haven't you in a dog's age!See also: biscuit, of, sea, sonson of a biscuit eater1. slang A mean or unpleasant person, especially a man. A minced oath replacing the profane phrase "son of a bitch." Julie's ex-husband was such a mean son of a biscuit eater, it's no wonder she divorced him. You gosh-darned son of a biscuit eater! I'm gonna make you pay for that!2. slang An emphatic expression of affection or admiration for a man. That son of a biscuit eater really pulled through for us when we needed him! Why, you old son of a biscuit eater! I haven't you in a dog's age!3. slang An inanimate object that is causing one problems or difficulty. My car broke down, and I can't figure out how to fix the son of a biscuit eater! A: "This stupid son of a biscuit eater has been giving me problems for weeks!" B: "I think it may be time to just buy a new computer, Tom."4. slang An exclamation of anger, aggravation, pain, or shock. A: "Son of a biscuit eater!" B: "What's wrong?" A: "The bank just charged me $50 in withdrawal fees!" Ouch, son of a biscuit eater! Stubbing your toe is the absolute worst!See also: biscuit, eater, of, sonfloat an air biscuitslang To fart. I can't believe you floated an air biscuit in the car. Now we have to smell it all the way home!See also: air, biscuit, floatgorilla biscuitsslang Phencyclidine. Were you guys able to score any gorilla biscuits before the concert?See also: biscuit, gorillason of a sea biscuitEuph. a person, usually a male. (sometimes a substitute for son of a bitch.) Why, good to see you, you old son of a sea biscuit. You son of a sea biscuit! You make me so mad I could slug you.See also: biscuit, of, sea, sontake the biscuit BRITISH, INFORMALIf someone or something takes the biscuit, they represent the most extreme example of something stupid or bad. For dirty tricks I can assure you it is the medical practice that really take the biscuit. I've heard some odd things in my time but that took the biscuit. This ban takes the biscuit. The whole idea is ridiculous and bureaucratic and not fair on the children. Note: This expression has a similar origin to `take the cake', which refers to the practice in the past of awarding cakes as prizes in competitions. Compare with take the cake.See also: biscuit, takehave had the biscuit be no longer good for anything; be done for. Canadian informal 1994 Equinox I thought I'd had the biscuit. I was more than 12 kilometres from camp, I didn't have a coat…and it was about 40 below. See also: biscuit, havetake the biscuit (or bun or cake) be the most remarkable. informal 1925 P. G. Wodehouse Letter Of all the poisonous, foul, ghastly places, Cannes takes the biscuit with absurd ease. See also: biscuit, taketake the ˈbiscuit (British English) (also take the ˈcake American English, British English ) (informal) be especially surprising, annoying, etc: Well, that really takes the biscuit! She asks if she can borrow the car, then keeps it for a month!See also: biscuit, takeair biscuit n. a breaking of wind; a fart. (see also cut a muffin.) Who is responsible for that air biscuit? See also: air, biscuitbiscuit (ˈbɪskət) n. the head. (see also float an air-biscuit.) She got a nasty little bump on the biscuit. float an air biscuit tv. to break wind; to fart. (see also cut a muffin.) Who floated the air biscuit? P.U. See also: air, biscuit, floatgorilla biscuits and gorilla pills n. amphetamines. (Drugs.) Stay away from gorilla biscuits. He’s high on gorilla pills. See also: biscuit, gorillamystic biscuit n. a chunk of peyote cactus. (Drugs.) Willy thought he got a piece of mystic biscuit, but it was just a moldy raisin. See also: biscuitsquare biscuit n. a plain, drab, and dull person. Old Roger is a square biscuit and acts like a school marm. See also: biscuit, squarebiscuit
biscuit1. a. a pale brown or yellowish-grey colour b. (as adjective): biscuit gloves 2. earthenware or porcelain that has been fired but not glazed
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www.gourmetsleuth.comBiscuit unglazed porcelain. From the middle of the 18th century, table-top sculpture groups were made of biscuit for service sets in the courts of Germany (meissen china), and to accompany the china of German courts; later such groups were also used in Russia, France, and Denmark. The best figures and sculptures of biscuit were made in the Sevres factory (France) from models of E. M. Falconet and in the Copenhagen factory (Denmark) from models of B. Torvald-sen. REFERENCEBiriukova, N. Iu. Frantsuzskaia farforovaia plastika XVIII veka. Leningrad, 1962.biscuit[′bis·kət] (engineering acoustics) preform (materials) A clay object that has been fired once prior to glazing. Pottery that is unglazed in its final form. (metallurgy) An upset blank for drop forging. biscuit
bis·cuit (bis'kit), A term associated with the firing of porcelain, and applied to the fired article before glazing. May be any stage after the fluxes have flowed enough to provide rigidity to the structure up to the stage where shrinkage is complete. Referred to as low, medium or high biscuit, depending on the completeness of vitrification, also as hard or soft biscuit.biscuit Dentistry
A popular term for a fired porcelain crown before glazing.
Drug slang
A regional term for a commercial unit of crack cocaine (e.g., 50 rocks).bis·cuit (bis'kit) A term associated with the firing of porcelain, and applied to the fired article before glazing. May be any stage after the fluxes have flowed enough to provide rigidity to the structure up to the stage where shrinkage is complete. Referred to as low, medium or high biscuit, depending on the completeness of vitrification, also as hard or soft biscuit. Biscuit
BiscuitIn the United Kingdom, a slang term for 1,000 pounds. The term gained currency in the gambling industry as 1,000-pound chips are larger than others, looking like biscuits or cookies.biscuit
Synonyms for biscuitnoun small round bread leavened with baking-powder or sodaRelated Words- quick bread
- rolled biscuit
- drop biscuit
- baking-powder biscuit
- buttermilk biscuit
- soda biscuit
- hardtack
- pilot biscuit
- pilot bread
- sea biscuit
- ship biscuit
noun any of various small flat sweet cakes ('biscuit' is the British term)SynonymsRelated Words- cake
- tea biscuit
- teacake
- dog biscuit
- butter cookie
- spice cookie
- almond cookie
- almond crescent
- brownie
- ginger nut
- ginger snap
- gingersnap
- snap
- macaroon
- kiss
- ladyfinger
- anise cookie
- molasses cookie
- oreo
- oreo cookie
- raisin-nut cookie
- refrigerator cookie
- raisin cookie
- fruit bar
- sugar cookie
- oatmeal cookie
- chocolate chip cookie
- Toll House cookie
- fortune cookie
- gingerbread man
- wafer
- granola bar
- Britain
- Great Britain
- U.K.
- UK
- United Kingdom
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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