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bis⋅cuit

  [bis-kit]
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–noun
1. a kind of bread in small, soft cakes, raised with baking powder or soda, or sometimes with yeast.
2. Chiefly British.
a. a dry and crisp or hard bread in thin, flat cakes, made without yeast or other raising agent; a cracker.
b. a cookie.
3. a pale-brown color.
4. Also called bisque. Ceramics. unglazed earthenware or porcelain after firing.
5. Also called preform. a piece of plastic or the like, prepared for pressing into a phonograph record.
–adjective
6. having the color biscuit.
Origin:
1300–50; ME bysquyte < MF biscuit (ML biscoctus), var. of bescuit seamen's bread, lit., twice cooked, equiv. to bes bis 1 + cuit, ptp. of cuire < L coquere to cook 1

Related forms:
bis⋅cuit⋅like, adjective
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bis⋅cuit

  [bees-kwee]
–noun French.
a cookie or cracker.
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bis·cuit   (bĭs'kĭt)   
n.   pl. bis·cuits

  1. A small cake of shortened bread leavened with baking powder or soda.

  2. Chiefly British

    1. A thin, crisp cracker.

    2. A cookie.

  3. A pale brown.

  4. 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.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
biscuit [ˈbɪskət]

  1. n.
    the head. (See also float an air-biscuit.) : She got a nasty little bump on the biscuit.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

biscuit 
respelled early 19c. from bisket (16c.), ultimately (1330) from O.Fr. bescuit "twice cooked," alt. under infl. of O.It. biscotto, from M.L. biscoctum, from L. (panis) bis coctus "(bread) twice-baked."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: bis·cuit
Pronunciation: 'bis-k&t
Function: noun
: porcelain after the first firing and before glazing
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Encyclopedia

biscuit

in the United States, a small quick bread usually made from flour, salt, butter or vegetable shortening, and with baking powder as a leavening agent. The dough is kneaded briefly and rolled out, and the biscuits are cut with a round cutter. The dough may also be dropped by spoonfuls for an irregular shape. Biscuits are usually eaten hot with butter and fruit preserves, sausage gravy, or ham. They are especially associated with the American South. The dough for beaten biscuits, also a Southern specialty, is literally beaten with a mallet or other utensil for about 30 minutes to produce a fine texture. A sweetened biscuit dough is used for strawberry shortcake, a dessert of biscuits split and covered with fresh strawberries and whipped cream.

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