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(UK,Australia,Ireland,New Zealand, sometimes Canada, rare in the US and the Philippines) 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.
(chiefly Canada, US, rare in Scotland and Guernsey) A small, usually soft and flakybread, generally made with baking soda, which is similar in texture to a scone but which is usually not sweet.
1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 87:
Charm'd by your touch, the kneaded clay refines, / The biscuit hardens, the enamel shines […].
2004, Frank Hamer with Janet Hamer, The Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques, 5th edition, London, Philadelphia, Penn.: A & C Black; University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 248:
An overfired biscuit has insufficient porosity for glazing.
A light brown colour.
biscuit:
(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.
2012 April 2, Nicki Minaj (lyrics and music), “Beez in the Trap” (track 4), in Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded:
Damn, damn, what they say about me? I don't know man, fuck is on your biscuit
2013 September 17, Jeezy featured by YG (lyrics and music), “My Nigga”, in My Krazy Life, track 7:
Me and my down ass nigga get twisted Nigga get to trippin', knock the gravy out your biscuit
2019 October 4, Lil Tjay featured by Pop Smoke (lyrics and music), “War”, in Meet The Woo 2, track 13 0:47:
Henny right here, I'ma sip it You try me, it's shots at your biscuit
2022 December 1, YOUNGESTSAV (lyrics and music), “District”, PressPlay, 0:26 and oftener:
[…] Risk it, you get slapped in your biscuit
Usage notes
In North America, a biscuit is a small, soft baked bread similar to a scone but not sweet. In some cases, it can be hard (see dog biscuit). In the United Kingdom, a biscuit is a small, crisp or firm, sweet baked good — the sort of thing which in North America is called a cookie. (Less frequently, British speakers refer to crackers as biscuits.) In North America, even small, layered baked sweets like Oreos are referred to as cookies, while in the UK, typically only those biscuits which have chocolate chips, nuts, fruit, or other things baked into them are also called cookies.
Both the US and the UK distinguish crackers, wafers and cookies/biscuits from cakes: the former are generally hard or crisp and become soft when stale, while the latter is generally soft or moist and becomes hard when stale.
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