| 单词 | biscuit |
| 释义 | biscuit (once / 654 pages) 1n 2n A biscuit is a small, round type of bread. A biscuit is delicious with butter, or you might prefer your biscuits with gravy. Biscuits are a lot like rolls, and they often serve the same purpose by being side dishes or appetizers. Baking powder or soda is used to leaven biscuits, which are best served when warm and soft. A hard, stale biscuit isn’t very appealing. People often eat biscuits as a side dish with dinner, or smothered with gravy at breakfast. WORD FAMILYbiscuit: biscuits USAGE EXAMPLESBefore that, in less than three weeks’ time, Donald Trump gets his fat fingers on the nuclear biscuit. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) Her help, Maria, lays on the biscuits and pours the whisky. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) It urges gentlemen to move for up to 24 miles a day, and to opt for a diet of lean meat, stale bread, and biscuits. BBC(Dec 30, 2016) 1 n small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda 2Hypo|Hyper rolled biscuit biscuit made from dough rolled and cut drop biscuitbiscuit made from dough with enough milk that it can be dropped from a spoon baking-powder biscuitleavened with baking powder buttermilk biscuit, soda biscuitvery tender biscuit partially leavened with buttermilk and soda hardtack, pilot biscuit, pilot bread, sea biscuit, ship biscuitvery hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple shortcakevery short biscuit dough baked as individual biscuits or a round loaf; served with sweetened fruit and usually whipped cream quick bread breads made with a leavening agent that permits immediate baking n any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term) Syn|Hypo|Hyper cookie, cooky tea biscuit, teacake flat semisweet cookie or biscuit usually served with tea dog biscuita hard biscuit for dogs butter cookiecookie containing much butter spice cookiecookie flavored with spices almond cookie, almond crescentvery rich cookie containing ground almonds; usually crescent-shaped browniesquare or bar of very rich chocolate cake usually with nuts ginger nut, ginger snap, gingersnap, snapa crisp round cookie flavored with ginger macaroonchewy cookie usually containing almond paste kissa cookie made of egg whites and sugar ladyfingersmall finger-shaped sponge cake anise cookiecookie made without butter and flavored with anise seed molasses cookievery spicy cookies sweetened partially with molasses oreo, oreo cookiechocolate cookie with white cream filling raisin-nut cookiecookie filled with a paste of raisins and nuts refrigerator cookiedough formed into a roll and chilled in the refrigerator then sliced and baked raisin cookiecookie containing raisins fruit barcookies containing chopped fruits either mixed in the dough or spread between layers of dough then baked and cut in bars sugar cookiecookies sprinkled with granulated sugar oatmeal cookiecookies containing rolled oats Toll House cookie, chocolate chip cookiecookies containing chocolate chips fortune cookiethin folded wafer containing a maxim on a slip of paper gingerbread mangingerbread cut in the shape of a person wafera small thin crisp cake or cookie granola barcookie bar made of granola shortbread, shortbread cookievery rich thick butter cookie ratafia, ratafia biscuitmacaroon flavored with ratafia liqueur coconut macaroonmacaroon containing coconut apricot barfruit bar containing apricot jam date barfruit bar containing chopped dates brandysnapa gingersnap flavored with brandy cake baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat |
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