EGAVE

biscuit

About 1.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.
  2. noun A small, usually soft and flaky bread, generally made with baking soda, which is similar in texture to a scone but which is usually not sweet.
  3. noun A cracker.
    cheese and biscuits
  4. noun Any of several hard bread or breadlike foodstuffs, especially those formerly supplied to naval ships and armies, made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes, and slowly baked, and which often became infested with weevils.
  5. noun A form of unglazed earthenware.
  6. noun A light brown colour.
    biscuit:
  7. noun A thin oval wafer of wood or other material inserted into mating slots on pieces of material to be joined to provide gluing surface and strength in shear.
  8. noun A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.

Similar words

cookie cooky bun cake cheesecake pie twinkie cracker cannoli sandwich

Often followed by

and company or in tin dough with for to

Word family

biscuits biscuity

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