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Synonyms for biscuit


Grammar : Noun
Spell : bis-kit
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbɪs kɪt

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Définition of biscuit

Origin :
  • respelled early 19c. from bisket (16c.), ultimately (besquite, early 14c.) from Old French bescuit (12c.), literally "twice cooked;" altered under influence of cognate Old Italian biscotto, both from Medieval Latin biscoctum, from Latin (panis) bis coctus "(bread) twice-baked;" see bis- + cook (v.). U.S. sense of "soft bun" is recorded from 1818.
  • As in tan : noun light brown
  • As in beige : noun light brown color
  • As in cookie : noun baked good
  • As in wafer : noun disk
  • As in countenance : noun appearance, usually of the face
  • As in cracker : noun hard, often salted, baked wafer
Example sentences :
  • Some was liquid and some gelatinous, and some firm like bread or biscuit.
  • Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings
  • To Massena he writes, “Let me know if your biscuit and bread arrangements are yet completed.”
  • Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles
  • But he took me to his own house for a glass of sherry and a biscuit, and there it wasn't so rotten.
  • Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • One glass of lemonade, one sandwich, one biscuit—Oh dear me!
  • Extract from : « A Tangled Tale » by Lewis Carroll
  • There was not a crumb of biscuit, and only half a pound of coffee.
  • Extract from : « The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras » by Jules Verne
  • To save all of us; but give me a piece of biscuit and some meat; I'm half starved.
  • Extract from : « The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras » by Jules Verne
  • “Might chaw on a biscuit before I take another nap,” yawned the prisoner.
  • Extract from : « The Coyote » by James Roberts
  • “Here, now, you two,” she stormed as she went back to her biscuit board.
  • Extract from : « The Wall Street Girl » by Frederick Orin Bartlett
  • A cup of coffee in the morning, and a biscuit, are all that he takes.
  • Extract from : « The Daltons, Volume I (of II) » by Charles James Lever
  • A sailor came down with a lanthorn, and tossed my biscuit to me.
  • Extract from : « Romance » by Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
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