Biscuits ˈbɪskɪt Cake Noun Packet/Tin Chocolate Selection Cheese

• 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.

biscuit

1. a small flat dry cake for one person, usually sweet, and baked until hard
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• 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 Examples

• 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
2. a soft bread roll, often eaten with gravy
3. a pale yellow-brown colour
4. 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!

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).