biscuit

British
as in cookie
a sweet baked food that is usually small, flat, and round The afternoon tea was accompanied by an assortment of biscuits.

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Recent Examples of biscuit Years ago, owner Shannon Paul had a vision to create a perfect buttermilk biscuit for Greater Cincinnati. Keith Pandolfi, Cincinnati Enquirer, 10 Oct. 2025 As platters emptied, they would have been removed from the table to make way for nuts, fruits, and sweet biscuits that were variously spiced with nutmeg from the Maluku Islands, in Indonesia; cinnamon from Sri Lanka; or ginger grown in the Caribbean. Victoria Flexner, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025 Get the magnificent biscuit, served in a puddle of garlic honey with cultured butter ($6). Peter Cameron, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025 Isn’t this the kind of biscuits-and-gravy place Lee thinks Betty Jo would like? Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for biscuit
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cookie
Noun
  • At night, grab a seat at the bar for a cookie and a glass of wine poured from Midwest Sad’s full bar, which also serves beer, CBD seltzers, kombucha, sodas and more.
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“Biscuit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/biscuit. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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