A biscuit is a flour-based baked food product. In most countries, particularly in the Commonwealth and Ireland, biscuits are typically hard, flat and unleavened.They are usually sweet and may be made with sugar, chocolate, icing, jam, ginger or cinnamon. A biscuit is a flour-based baked food product. In most countries—particularly in the Commonwealth and Ireland—biscuits are typically hard, flat and unleavened.They are usually sweet and may be made with sugar, chocolate, icing, jam, ginger or cinnamon. This is a simple but tasty biscuit recipe. You don't taste the mayo, but it gives the biscuits a light and fluffy texture. For rolled and cut biscuits, use just enough milk to hold it together.
Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Financial, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.bis·cuit
(bĭs′kĭt)n.pl.
bis·cuits1. A small cake of shortened bread leavened with baking powder or soda.
2. Chiefly Britishb. 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.
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.]
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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) USandCanadian a kind of small roll similar to a muffin
3. (Colours) b. (as adjective): biscuit gloves.
4. (Ceramics) Also called: bisque earthenware or porcelain that has been fired but not glazed
5. 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]
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
bis•cuit
(ˈbɪs kɪt)n.
1. a small, soft, raised bread, usu. leavened with baking powder or soda.
2. Chiefly Brit. b. a cookie.
4. Also called bisque. unglazed earthenware or porcelain after firing.
[1300–50; Middle English bysquyte < Middle French biscuit, literally, twice cooked]
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biscuit
Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited
| 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 butter cookie - cookie containing much butter 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 ginger nut, ginger snap, gingersnap, snap - a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger macaroon - chewy cookie usually containing almond paste 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 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 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 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 |
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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 biscuitCollins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
sušenkavdoleksuchar
keksz
mjúkt matarbrauîòurrkaka; sandkakasmákaka, kex; tvíbaka
ビスケット
bandelėbiskvitinis pyragaitissausainis
biskvīta kūciņabiskvīts, sauss cepumsbulciņamaizīte
biskvitsuchár
kex
biscuit
[ˈbɪskɪt]A.N (Brit) → galletaf (US) → magdalenaf
that takes the biscuit! → ¡eso es el colmo!
that takes the biscuit! → ¡eso es el colmo!
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
biscuit
[ˈbɪskɪt]n(British) → biscuitm
to take the biscuit (British) [action] → être le bouquet
to take the biscuit (British) [action] → être le bouquet
(US) → petit painm au laitbiscuit tin n(British) → boîtef à biscuits
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
biscuit
n(Brit) → Keksm; (= dog biscuit) → Hundekuchenm; that takes/you take the biscuit! (Brit inf) → das übertrifft alles or (negatively) → schlägt dem Fass den Boden aus
(= porcelain: also biscuit-ware) → Biskuitporzellannt
adj (colour) → beige
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
biscuit
[ˈbɪskɪt]n (BritBiscuits
) → biscotto (Am) → panino al latte
to take the biscuit (fam) → essere assolutamenteincredibile
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
biscuit
(ˈbiskit) noun1. (American ˈcookie) a crisp, sweet piece of dough baked in small flat cakes. beskuitjie بَسْكوت бисквита bolacha sušenka der Keks kiks; småkage μπισκότοgalleta küpsis بیسکویت keksi biscuitביסקוויט बिस्कुट keks, kolačić aprósütemény biskuit smákaka, kex; tvíbaka biscotto ビスケット (미국) 쿠키 sausainis biskvīts, sauss cepums biskut koekjekjeks, småkakeherbatnik bolacha biscuit 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 biscoito suchar der Kuchen småkage αλμυρό μπισκότο galleta kook کلوچه pikkuleipä gâteau sec עוגיה, עוגייה बिस्कुट नुमा केक keks keksz kue pipih þurrkaka; sandkaka biscotto クラッカー 쿠키와 유사한 케이크 biskvitinis pyragaitis biskvīta kūciņa biskut crackersmåkakebiszkopt كلچه biscoito бисквитный пирог suchár piškot keks småkaka คุกกี้ gevrek, peksimet 鹹薄餅 коржик کیک کی ایک قسم bánh dẹt nhỏ 软烤饼
3. (American) a small soft round cake. koekie خُبْزات شَطائِر кръгла торта tortinha vdolek das weiche Brötchen bolle; scone πιτάκι bizcocho küpsis کلوچه pulla petit gâteau לחמניה, לחמנייה मुलायम गोल केक kolačić lángos kue kecil mjúkt matarbrauð dolcetto 丸パン (미국) 작고 부드러운 케이크 bandelė maizīte; bulciņa biskut koekjebolle, scone biszkopcik کلچه 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
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
biscuit
→ بَسْكَوِيت sušenka kiksKeksμπισκότοgalleta keksibiscuit keksbiscotto ビスケット 비스킷biscuitkjeks
herbatnikbolachaпеченье kex ขนมปังกรอบbisküvi bánh quy饼干Denver Biscuit Company
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