Biscuit

Quick meaning: Biscuit is a noun meaning (UK, Ireland, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia) A cracker.

Meaning

(UK, Ireland, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia) A cracker.

More Meanings

1. A form of unglazed earthenware.
2. A light brown colour.
3. (US, slang) A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.
4. (UK, India, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, sometimes Canada, uncommon in the US and the Philippines) A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.
5. (woodworking) 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.
6. (especially nautical) 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.
7. (chiefly Canada, US, rare in Scotland and Guernsey) 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.

Example Sentences

water biscuits

digestive biscuits

cheese and biscuits

Near-synonyms: tack, bread

Word Forms

• biscuits
• biscuiting
• biscuited

Synonyms for biscuit

Depending on context, synonyms include tack, bread, biscuitware, biscuitry, dowel, spline.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cookie, cooky, bun, cake, cheesecake, pie.

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