different between biscuit vs pancake

English

Etymology

From earlier bisket, from Middle English besquite, borrowed from Old French bescuit (French biscuit); doublet of biscotti.

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?s'k?t, IPA^(key): /?b?sk?t/
• Rhymes: -?sk?t

Noun

biscuit (countable and uncountable, plural biscuits)

1. (chiefly Britain, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, rare in the US) A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.
   • 1992 October 3, Edwina Currie, Diary:

     Weighed myself at the gym and have hit 10st 8lb, a sure sign of things getting out of control—so I can’t even console myself with a chocolate biscuit.

2. (chiefly Canada, US) A small, usually soft and flaky bread, generally made with baking soda, which is similar in texture to a scone but which is usually not sweet.
3. (Britain, Philippines) A cracker.

4. (nautical) The "bread" formerly supplied to naval ships, which was made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes, and slowly baked, and which often became infested with weevils.
5. A form of unglazed earthenware.
6. A light brown colour.

7. (woodworking) A thin oval wafer of wood or other material inserted into mating slots on pieces of material to be joined to provide gluing surface and strength in shear.

   Synonyms: dowel, finger joint, glue strip, spline

8. (US, slang) A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.
9. (US, slang, hiphop) A handgun, especially a revolver.
10. (ice hockey, shuffleboard) A puck (hockey puck).

Usage notes

• In North America, a biscuit is a small, soft baked bread similar to a scone but not sweet. In the United Kingdom, a biscuit is a small, crisp or firm, sweet baked good — the sort of thing which in North America is called a cookie. (Less frequently, British speakers refer to crackers as biscuits.) In North America, even small, layered baked sweets like Oreos are referred to as sandwich cookies, while in the UK, typically only those biscuits which have chocolate chips, nuts, fruit, or other things baked into them are also called cookies.
• Throughout the English-speaking world, thin, crispy, salty or savoury baked breads like these are called crackers, while thin, crispy, sweet baked goods like these and these are wafers.
• Both the US and the UK distinguish crackers, wafers and cookies/biscuits from cakes: the former are generally hard or crisp and become soft when stale, while the latter is generally soft or moist and becomes hard when stale.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:biscuit.

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French

Etymology

From Old French bescuit, from bescuire, equivalent to bis- +? cuit, or from Medieval Latin biscoctus, from Latin bis (“twice”) coctus (“cooked”). Compare Italian biscotto, Spanish bizcocho, Portuguese biscoito. May be decomposed as bis +? cuit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bis.k?i/

Noun

biscuit m (plural biscuits)

1. biscuit

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

• “biscuit” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French biscuit. Doublet of biscotto.

Noun

biscuit m (invariable)

1. biscuit (white earthenware)
2. wafer (for ice cream)

Anagrams

• cubisti

Romanian

Alternative forms

• biscot (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from French biscuit. Doublet of pi?cot, which came from Hungarian.

Noun

biscuit m (plural biscui?i)

1. biscuit, cookie
2. biscuit (white earthenware)

Declension

See also

• pi?cot
• pr?jitur?

Further reading

• biscuit in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

English

Etymology

From Middle English pancake, equivalent to pan +? cake. The juggling sense is by analogy with a pancake being tossed in a pan.

Compare Saterland Frisian Ponkouke, Ponkuuke (“pancake”), West Frisian pankoek (“pancake”), Dutch pannenkoek (“pancake”), German Low German Pannkook (“pancake”), German Pfannkuchen (“pancake”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæn.ke?k/, /?pæ?.ke?k/

Noun

pancake (plural pancakes)

1. A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter.
2. A U.S. style thicker batter cake fried in a pan.
3. (theater) A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
4. (juggling) A type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop.
5. Anything very thin and flat.
   • 2004, William H. Cropper, Great Physicists

     Most of the electrons would pass through the hadron pancake with no interaction, but a few would collide […]

6. Composite leather made of scraps, glue and board, by extension of (4), material originally used for insoles, but later used also for heels and even soles.
   • 1903, Davis Rich Dewey, Twelfth Census of the United States: Special report: Employees and Wages p. 1200

     &hellip in the poorer grades the heel is made of scrap leather and leather board or pulp, finished with a solid leather top lift. The composite material, called pancake, is made by an operative, usually a girl, called a pancake-maker; it is used sometimes for soles as well as heels.

7. (film, slang) A box on which an actor stands to make them appear taller.

Synonyms

• (thin fried batter cake): crêpe/crepe, flapjack, griddle cake, hotcake, pikelet

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Verb

pancake (third-person singular simple present pancakes, present participle pancaking, simple past and past participle pancaked)

1. (intransitive) To make a pancake landing.
2. (construction, demolition) To collapse one floor after another.
3. (transitive) To flatten violently.

See also

• blintz
• okonomiyaki
• Pan-Cake
• waffle

Anagrams

• cakepan

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pan.k?k/

Noun

pancake m (plural pancakes)

1. pancake

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ponkake, pankake, panne cake

Etymology

From panne (“pan”) +? cake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?panka?k(?)/

Noun

pancake

1. pancake (kind of fried cake)

Descendants

• English: pancake
• Scots: pancake

References

• “panne-c?ke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-05.

Portuguese

Noun

pancake f (plural pancakes)

1. Dated form of panqueca.