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biscuits

[bis-kit] Origin

bis·cuit

[bis-kit]
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.

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Origin:
1300–50; Middle English bysquyte < Middle French biscuit (Medieval Latin biscoctus), variant of bescuit seamen's bread, literally, twice cooked, equivalent to bes bis1 + cuit, past participle of cuire < Latin coquere to cook1

bis·cuit·like, adjective
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bis·cuit

[bees-kwee]
noun French.
a cookie or cracker.
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Word Origin & History

biscuit
respelled early 19c. from bisket (16c.), ultimately (early 14c.) from O.Fr. bescuit "twice cooked," altered under influence of cognate O.It. biscotto from M.L. biscoctum, from L. (panis) bis coctus "(bread) twice-baked;" see bis- + cook.
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biscuit definition

[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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