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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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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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