2017年11月2日 · Thomas Dyche & William Pardon, A New General English Dictionary, third edition (1749) is the earliest dictionary I've been able to find that lists the spelling biscuit: BISKET, BISCUIT, or BISQUET (S.) commonly understood of small cakes made by the confectioners, of fine flower, eggs, sugar, &c. also the bread carried to sea, is called sea biscuit.

2023年1月4日 · A couple of reference works that explore terminological differences between U.S. English and British English argue for scone as the approximate British English equivalent of the U.S. English biscuit. From Norman Schur, British English A to Zed, third edition (2007): scone, n. | approx. baking powder biscuit

You find in dictionaries (OED for example) that what the British call biscuit, is called cookie or cracker in America. But, British biscuits are like these: while American cookies are like these: and crackers are like these: They're totally different in form and character. I'm afraid the best choice would be British biscuit!.

2019年5月5日 · In the UK a cookie is a particular type of biscuit with a high butter and sugar content so the dough melts during cooking giving a crispy edge with a softer centre. Biscuit covers a wide range of recipes from sweet, semi-sweet, to savoury e.g. "biscuit for cheese" with a wide range a textures, shape thickness.

Note that a biscuit in the US is similar to a scone, a type of cake. Photo: Lizzie Munro/Tasting Table. This is what British speakers usually think of when using the term biscuit, a type of plain “cookie” Image source: The Guardian. The following definitions of the idiom, take the biscuit, come from a wide selection of dictionaries on the ...

2016年9月8日 · Biscuit comes from the French word with the same spelling. The French word biscuit derives from bis meaning “twice” (from the Latin) and cuit meaning “cooked”, and it originally meant a type of bread that had been cooked twice and could be conserved for a long time, especially to serve as food during a long sea journey, but in modern French it most often means any kind of small, flat ...

2013年1月9日 · Take the biscuit or cake is excelling in something - positive or negative. So on its own it means nothing; after some act or some expression, it means you surpassed whatever was expected. Here is my take. When it comes to selfishness, you really take the biscuit/cake. That was amazingly kind of you, you really take the biscuit

2011年12月5日 · The slang Urban Dictionary defines let's cut this biscuit as: A phrase that is used used to signal, perhaps impatiently, a desire for something to begin. It could be a project, a trip, asking someone out--anything for which preparations have been made, and a specific goal is to be achieved. 1. "All right people, let's cut this biscuit!" 2.

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2014年10月9日 · Neither of those is good. This is what we want. We can also check, by making biscuit plural and seeing if the verb changes to agree with it: My biscuits are there. This result is good. So everything's on track. (5) In yes/no questions, Subjects invert with auxiliary verbs - including the verb BE. If we turn My biscuit is there into a question ...