biscuit
English
/ˈbɪskɪt/
noun
Definitions
- (chiefly) A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm: a cookie.
- (chiefly) 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.
- (UK) A cracker.
- (nautical) The "bread" formerly supplied to naval ships, which was made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes and slowly baked, and which often became infested with weevils.
- A form of unglazed earthenware.
- A light brown colour.
- (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.
- (US) A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.
- (US) A handgun, especially a revolver.
- (ice hockey) A puck (hockey puck).
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French bescuit (twice cooked) root from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (cook, become ripe, bake).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*pekʷ-
Gloss
cook, become ripe, bake
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
炊
Emoji
🍚 👨🍳 👩🍳
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Biscuitgate English
- biscuiteer English
- biscuitless English
- biscuitlike English
- biscuitroot English
- biscuitry English
- biscuity English
- concoction English
- cunt English
- cuntbiscuit English
- kitchenette English
- precocious English
- precociousness English
- root English
- (persicum, persica) praecocia Latin
- bis Latin
- biscoctum Latin
- biscoctus Latin
- coctilis Latin
- cocus Latin
- concoctiō Latin
- coquina Latin
- coquus Latin
- coquīna Latin
- coquō Latin
- coquō, coquo, coquere Latin
- culīna Latin
- culīnārius Latin
- decoctiō Latin
- decoquō Latin
- recoctus, recocta Latin
- Biskuit German
- biscuit Italian
- terra Italian
- beschuit Dutch, Flemish
- bis French
- biscuit French
- biscuiter French
- biscuiterie French
- charcuterie French
- cuit French
- haute French
- précocité French
- бисквит Russian
- bísquet Spanish, Castilian
- δύσπεπτος Ancient Greek
- πέπων Ancient Greek
- πέψις Ancient Greek
- *pekʷ- Proto-Indo-European
- *pékʷ-ye- Proto-Indo-European
- *kukōną Proto-Germanic
- पाचयति Sanskrit
- *pekti Proto-Slavic
- *peťi Proto-Slavic
- *potъ Proto-Slavic
- bescuit Old French
- biskvito Esperanto
- biskvit Serbo-Croatian
- бисквит Serbo-Croatian
- biskví Icelandic
- बिस्कुट Hindi
- biscuit Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- пухтан Persian
- پختن Persian
- บิสกิต Thai
- biskwit Cebuano
- bisküvi Turkish
- briosgaid Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- bích quy Vietnamese
- biskuwit Tagalog
- biskut Malay
- ဘီစကွတ် Burmese
- *kʷokʷo- Proto-Celtic
- *kʷoxtos Proto-Celtic
- бисквит Macedonian
- *pač- Proto-Indo-Iranian
- biskuti Swahili
- 비스켓 Korean
- *kʷekʷō Proto-Italic
- kepti Lithuanian
- petkōj Marshallese
- bisket Tok Pisin
- päk- Tocharian B
- bisikitra Malagasy
- pewtene Zazaki
- päk- Tocharian A
- biskut Fiji Hindi