biscuit
noun
[ ˈbɪskɪt ]
• a small baked unleavened cake, typically crisp, flat, and sweet.
• "a chocolate biscuit"
• porcelain or other pottery which has been fired but not glazed.
• "biscuit ware"
• a light brown colour.
• a small flat piece of wood used to join two larger pieces of wood together, fitting into slots in each.
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French bescuit, based on Latin bis ‘twice’ + coctus, past participle of coquere ‘to cook’ (so named because originally biscuits were cooked in a twofold process: first baked and then dried out in a slow oven so that they would keep).
take the biscuit
• be the most remarkable or foolish of its kind.
