Synonyms for biscuit
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : bis-kit |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈbɪs kɪt |
Top 10 synonyms for biscuit Other synonyms for the word biscuit
- aspect
- biscuit
- bronze
- brown
- buff
- bun
- café au lait
- cast
- confection
- cream
- ecru
- expression
- face
- fawn
- features
- gills
- gold
- hardtack
- kisser
- leather-colored
- look
- looks
- map
- mask
- mien
- mug
- mushroom
- natural
- neutral
- oatmeal
- off-white
- olive
- olive-brown
- phizog
- physiognomy
- poker face
- potato
- pretzel
- puss
- rusk
- saddle
- saltine
- sand
- suntan
- tan
- taupe
- tawny
- umber
- visage
- wafer
- yellowish
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
- 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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