Biscuit vs. Bicky — What's the Difference?

A biscuit is a flour-based baked food product. In most countries, particularly in the Commonwealth and Ireland, biscuits are typically hard, flat and unleavened.

A small baked unleavened cake, typically crisp, flat, and sweet

Porcelain or other pottery which has been fired but not glazed

A light brown colour.

A small flat piece of wood used to join two larger pieces of wood together, fitting into slots in each.

A small cake of shortened bread leavened with baking powder or soda.

A thin, crisp cracker.

A cookie.

A hard, dry cracker given to dogs as a treat or dietary supplement.

A thin, often oblong, waferlike piece of wood, glued into slots to connect larger pieces of wood in a joint.

A pale brown.

Pl. biscuit Clay that has been fired once but not glazed. Also called bisque2.

A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.

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.

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.

A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.

A handgun, especially a revolver.

A puck (hockey puck).

(slang) The head.

A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit.

A small loaf or cake of bread, raised and shortened, or made light with soda or baking powder. Usually a number are baked in the same pan, forming a sheet or card.

Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.

A species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature.

Small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda

Any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)