biscuit

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie. Australia,Canada,India,Ireland,New-Zealand
    — 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.
  2. 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. Canada,US,countable,rare,uncountable
  3. A cracker. Ireland,Malaysia,Philippines,Singapore,UK
    — cheese and biscuits
  4. Any of several hard bread or breadlike foodstuffs, especially those formerly supplied to naval ships and armies, made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes, and slowly baked, and which often became infested with weevils. countable,especially,uncountable
    — Near-synonyms: tack, bread
  5. A form of unglazed earthenware. countable,uncountable
    — Charm'd by your touch, the kneaded clay refines, / The biscuit hardens, the enamel shines […].
  6. A light brown colour. countable,uncountable
  7. 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. countable,uncountable
  8. A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack. US,countable,slang,uncountable
  9. A handgun, especially a revolver. US,countable,slang,uncountable
    — I shoot my biscuit in the air until the sky is gone
  10. A puck (hockey puck). countable,uncountable
  11. The head. countable,slang,uncountable
    — Damn, damn, what they say about me? I don't know man, fuck is on your biscuit
  12. An inner tube used in the sport of tubing, or biscuiting. New-Zealand,countable,uncountable
  13. A young woman. US,countable,slang,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To fire (pottery) in a kiln, without a ceramic glaze. transitive
  2. To take part in the sport of tubing, riding down a river on an inner tube. New-Zealand,intransitive

词形变化

biscuits plural biscuits present,singular,third-person biscuiting participle,present biscuited participle,past biscuited past

词源

词源 1
PIE word
*dwóh₁
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwís
Proto-Italic *dwis
Old Latin duis
Early Medieval Latin bis
Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti
Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō
Early Medieval Latin coquō
Early Medieval Latin coctus
Early Medieval Latin biscoctus
Old French bescuitbor.
Middle English bisquyte
English biscuit
From earlier bisket, from Middle English bisquyte, from Old French bescuit (French biscuit); doublet of biscotto.
词源 2
PIE word
*dwóh₁
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwís
Proto-Italic *dwis
Old Latin duis
Early Medieval Latin bis
Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti
Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō
Early Medieval Latin coquō
Early Medieval Latin coctus
Early Medieval Latin biscoctus
Old French bescuitbor.
Middle English bisquyte
English biscuit
From earlier bisket, from Middle English bisquyte, from Old French bescuit (French biscuit); doublet of biscotto.
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