biscotto — 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

biscotto 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.
• match fixing (sports) The act of losing, or playing to a pre-determined result, in sports matches after betting against oneself.
• rusk a twice-baked bread, slices of bread baked until they are hard and crisp (also called a zwieback)

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.

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