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How to pronounce biscuit in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms cookie, cooky
Type of cake
Has types fortune cookie, fruit bar, ginger nut, ginger snap, gingerbread man, gingersnap, granola bar, kiss, ladyfinger, macaroon, molasses cookie, oatmeal cookie, oreo, oreo cookie, wafer, almond crescent, anise cookie, brownie, butter cookie, chocolate chip cookie, dog biscuit, raisin-nut cookie, raisin cookie, refrigerator cookie, snap, spice cookie, sugar cookie, tea biscuit, teacake, toll house cookie, almond cookie
Type Words
Type of quick bread
Has types pilot biscuit, pilot bread, baking-powder biscuit, hardtack, drop biscuit, rolled biscuit, sea biscuit, ship biscuit, soda biscuit, buttermilk biscuit

Examples of biscuit

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Dip each biscuit lengthwise into the cooled sugar syrup to soak halfway through.
From the au.news.yahoo.com
Pack the biscuit mixture into the tin, firming it down with the back of a spoon.
From the independent.co.uk
Sherry chicken and mushroom soup will be served on an opened buttermilk biscuit.
From the courier-journal.com
Once cooled, wrap a biscuit around each cooked sausage patty and seal the edges.
From the al.com
But this government takes the biscuit by tripling it with the aid of Lair Clegg.
From the guardian.co.uk
Also she will bring you a drink and a biscuit if you would like, free of charge.
From the guardian.co.uk
It's built of American cheese, fried egg, fried thick-cut bologna and a biscuit.
From the sacbee.com
Finally, make sure your oven is fully heated before slipping in the biscuit pan.
From the denverpost.com
For a thread full of some very silly comments this just about takes the biscuit.
From the guardian.co.uk
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  • Small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda
  • Cookie: any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)
  • A biscuit is a baked edible product. The term is used to apply to two distinctly different products in North America and the Commonwealth Nations.
  • A biscuit in the United States, and widely used in popular American English, is a small bread made with baking powder or baking soda as a chemical leavening agent rather than yeast.
  • Biscuit (aka Bizkit or Biskit) is a drinking game originating in France using a pair of standard dice.
  • A biscuit joiner or sometimes plate joiner is a woodworking tool used to join two pieces of wood together. ...
  • (Biscuits (album)) Biscuits was an EP of live and unreleased cuts by Living Colour, released on July 16, 1991. The Sony Music Japan edition of this disc had nine extra tracks not available on the international editions. ...
  • A cookie; A small bread usually made with baking soda, similar in texture to a scone, but usually not sweet; A form of unglazed earthenware; The "bread" formerly supplied to naval ships; made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes and slowly baked; often infested with weevils; A light ...
  • (BISCUITS) The word "biscuit" is derived from the Latin panis biscoctus, "twice-baked bread." From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, forms of the word included besquite and bisket. Similar forms are noted in many European languages. ...