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   biscuit

   /ˈbɪskɪt/

   noun

   • 1. a small baked unleavened cake, typically crisp, flat, and sweet: British "a chocolate biscuit"
   • ▪ a small, soft round cake like a scone. North American
   • 2. porcelain or other pottery which has been fired but not glazed: "biscuit ware"
   • 3. a light brown colour.
   • 4. a small flat piece of wood used to join two larger pieces of wood together, fitting into slots in each.

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French bescuit, based on Latin bis ‘twice’ + coctus, past participle of coquere ‘to cook’ (so named because originally biscuits were cooked in a twofold process: first baked and then dried out in a slow oven so that they would keep).

   Derivatives

   • 1. biscuity adjective

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