different between macaroon vs biscuit
macaroon
English
Etymology 1
From French macaron.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?mæk.???u?n/
- (US) IPA(key): /?mæk.???un/
- Rhymes: -u?n
Noun
macaroon (plural macaroons)
- A soft biscuit or cookie prepared with almond or coconut dough.
- Alternative spelling of macaron
Translations
Etymology 2
From Italian macarone.
Noun
macaroon (plural macaroons)
- (archaic) A coarse, rude, low fellow.
- 1590s, John Donne, Satire IV, "Well; I may now receive, and die":
- Like a big wife, at sight of lothed meat,
- Ready to travail; so I sigh and sweat,
- To hear this macaroon talk on in vain.
- 1590s, John Donne, Satire IV, "Well; I may now receive, and die":
Further reading
- macaroon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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- macaron taste like
biscuit
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)
- (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.
- 1992 October 3, Edwina Currie, Diary:
- (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.
- (Britain, Philippines) A cracker.
- (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.
- A form of unglazed earthenware.
- A light brown colour.
- (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
- (US, slang) A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.
- (US, slang, hiphop) A handgun, especially a revolver.
- (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.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
See also
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)
- 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)
- biscuit (white earthenware)
- 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)
- biscuit, cookie
- 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)
biscuit From the web:
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