biscuit – English noun declension

English noun forms of biscuit

Noun: biscuit
Singularbiscuit
Pluralbiscuits

Sample Sentences

  • 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. [1992 October 3, Edwina Currie, Diary:]
  • cheese and biscuits
  • water biscuits
  • digestive biscuits
  • Near-synonyms: tack, bread
  • He was a long, earnest man, and though born on an icy coast, seemed well adapted to endure hot latitudes, his flesh being hard as twice-baked biscuit. [1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Knights and Squires”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 125:]
  • Charm'd by your touch, the kneaded clay refines, / The biscuit hardens, the enamel shines […]. [1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 87:]
  • In 1740, Thomas Whieldon of Little Fenton made 'toys' in either the clay or biscuit state. They were coloured with zaffre, copper, manganese, etc. and glazed with black, red or white lead. [1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 202:]
  • An overfired biscuit has insufficient porosity for glazing. [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:]
  • I shoot my biscuit in the air until the sky is gone [2007, Army of the Pharaohs, “Bloody Tears”, in Ritual of Battle:]
  • Damn, damn, what they say about me?
  • I don't know man, fuck is on your biscuit [2012 April 2, Nicki Minaj, “Beez in the Trap” (track 4), in Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded:]
  • Me and my down ass nigga get twisted
  • Nigga get to trippin', knock the gravy out your biscuit [2013 September 17, Jeezy featured by YG, “My Nigga”, in My Krazy Life, track 7:]
  • Henny right here, I'ma sip it
  • You try me, it's shots at your biscuit [2019 October 4, Lil Tjay featured by Pop Smoke, “War”, in Meet The Woo 2, track 13 0:47:]
  • […] Risk it, you get slapped in your biscuit [2022 January 12, YOUNGESTSAV, “District”, PressPlay, 0:26 and oftener:]

Etymology

1. PIE word
2. *dwóh₁
3. Etymology tree
4. Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
5. Proto-Indo-European *dwís
6. Proto-Italic *dwis
7. Old Latin duis
8. Latin bis
9. Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ-
10. Proto-Indo-European *-eti
11. Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti
12. Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō
13. Latin *quoquō
14. Latin coquō
15. Latin coctus
16. Early Medieval Latin biscoctus
17. Old French bescuitbor.
18. Middle English bisquyte
19. English biscuit
20. From earlier bisket, from Middle English bisquyte, from Old French bescuit (French biscuit); doublet of biscotto. See: Middle English Nouns 'bisquyte', French Nouns 'biscuit'.