- [countable] (British English) a small flat dry cake for one person, usually sweet, and baked until hard
- a packet/tin of chocolate biscuits
- a selection of cheese biscuits
- The cake has a biscuit base (= one made from crushed biscuits).
- We were offered a cup of tea and some biscuits.
Extra ExamplesTopics Fooda2- Frank always dunks his biscuits in his tea.
- He brushed the biscuit crumbs from his jacket.
- He was cutting biscuits out and putting them on a baking tray.
- a packet of coconut biscuits
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- dry
- hard
- flaky
- …
- box
- packet
- tin
- …
- eat
- have
- nibble
- …
- barrel
- tin
- crumbs
- …
- cheese and biscuits
- biscuits and gravy
- [countable] (North American English) a soft bread roll, often eaten with gravyTopics Foodc2
- [uncountable] a pale yellow-brown colourMore Like This Silent lettersSilent letters
Word OriginMiddle 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).
Idioms
See biscuit in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarytake the biscuit (British English)
(also take the cake North American English, British English)
- (informal) to be the most surprising, annoying, etc. thing that has happened or that somebody has done
- You've done some stupid things before, but this really takes the biscuit!
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