HOW TO PRONOUNCE
biscuit
/ˈbɪskət/
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American Pronunciation Guide · 1:05
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Keep the second syllable light.
Practice BIS-kuht with the short i of “sit” in the first syllable. The letters ui have a light uh sound before t, rather than the long oo of “suit.”
2 syllables · Stress on syllable 1
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“She offered me a biscuit with tea.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does biscuit mean?
noun
- A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.
- A cracker.
- 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.
More meanings (12)
noun
- A form of unglazed earthenware.
- A light brown colour.
- 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.
- (slang) A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.
- (slang) A handgun, especially a revolver.
- A puck (hockey puck).
- (slang) The head.
- An inner tube used in the sport of tubing, or biscuiting.
- (slang) A young woman.
- (rare) 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.
verb
- To fire (pottery) in a kiln, without a ceramic glaze.
- To take part in the sport of tubing, riding down a river on an inner tube.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈbɪskət/
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For a single biscuit, any of my hungry little comrades would give me a lesson more valuable to me than bread.
I cannot describe the change which half a pound of cold salt beef and a biscuit or two produced in me.
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Pétya pushed her hand away with his knee, seized a biscuit, and as if fearing to be too late, again shouted “Hurrah!”
Starting from the earliest stage in the process, there would be two men in the outer Hut grinding plasmon biscuit into powder.
My stock of provisions consisted of a box of biscuit, and my courage was flowing from me like blood from an opened vein.