bescuit — meaning in English

English meaning

• biscuit noun A small, flat baked snack, either crisp (British sense, like a cookie) or soft and flaky (American sense, like a scone).
• cookie noun (chiefly US) A small, flat, sweet baked treat.
• rusk noun A hard, dry, twice-baked biscuit, often given as a teething food for babies.

Senses

bescuit is used for these senses in English:

• biscuit (UK, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, sometimes, Canada, rare) A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.
• biscuit (especially, nautical) 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.
• cookie (North America, Philippines) A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.
• cookie (UK, Commonwealth) A sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) usually having chocolate chips, fruit, nuts, etc. baked into it.
• rusk a twice-baked bread, slices of bread baked until they are hard and crisp (also called a zwieback)
• sponge cake A light, soft, baked dessert (commonly layered with cream and jam) that is typically made with flour, sugar, baking powder and eggs, and has a firm, yet well aerated structure, similar to that of a sea sponge.

biscuit — full definition

1. noun A small, flat baked snack, either crisp (British sense, like a cookie) or soft and flaky (American sense, like a scone).
2. noun Unglazed pottery that has been fired once but not yet coated with glaze.
3. noun Slang for a hockey puck.

cookie — full definition

1. noun (chiefly US) A small, flat, sweet baked treat.
2. noun (computing) A small piece of data a website stores on a visitor's device to remember information between visits.

Related Catalan words