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beaten biscuit

noun

, Southern U.S.
  1. a hard, unleavened biscuit, made to rise by pounding and folding the dough.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of beaten biscuit1

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80

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Example Sentences

On this day, between the disks of her beaten biscuit showed the pinkness of sliced ham.

Remember me to your elderly and amiable handmaiden, whose beaten biscuit I recall with such felicity.

"That's all right," answered Lloyd, tossing the olive stone out on the grass, and helping herself to a beaten biscuit.

There was beaten biscuit and fried chicken and iced watermelon, and all sorts of good things.

Fried chicken and sweet potatoes, beaten biscuit and fragrant coffee, had a flavour all their own to Burns that night.

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