Origin: 1300–50; Middle English bysquyte < Middle French biscuit (Medieval Latin biscoctus), variant of bescuit seamen's bread, literally, twice cooked, equivalent to besbis1 + cuit, past participle of cuire < Latin coquere to cook1
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.
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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