biscuit

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.

   Weighed myself at the gym and have hit 10st 8lb, a sure sign of things getting out of control—so I can’t even console myself with a chocolate biscuit.

2. 2
   noun

   A cracker.

   cheese and biscuits

3. 3
   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.

   Near-synonyms: tack, bread

4. 4
   noun

   A form of unglazed earthenware.

   Charm'd by your touch, the kneaded clay refines, / The biscuit hardens, the enamel shines […].

5. 5
   noun

   A handgun, especially a revolver.

   I shoot my biscuit in the air until the sky is gone

6. 6
   noun

   The head.

   Damn, damn, what they say about me? I don't know man, fuck is on your biscuit

7. 7
   noun

   any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)

8. 8
   noun

   small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda

Etymology

PIE word *dwóh₁ Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwís Proto-Italic *dwis Old Latin duis Early Medieval Latin bis Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō Early Medieval Latin coquō Early Medieval Latin coctus Early Medieval Latin biscoctus Old French bescuitbor. Middle English bisquyte English biscuit From earlier bisket, from Middle English bisquyte, from Old French bescuit (French biscuit); doublet of biscotto.