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  • adjective Resembling a biscuit.

Etymologies

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biscuit +‎ -y

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Examples

  • Based on the residue from drinking vessels discovered inside the golden king's 2,700-year-old tomb, the concoction is described as "biscuity" and "succulent," with hints of honey, saffron, papaya and melon.

    Not Just For Renaissance Fairs: Mead Producers Triple In 10 Years AP 2010

  • Based on the residue from drinking vessels discovered inside the golden king's 2,700-year-old tomb, the concoction is described as "biscuity" and "succulent," with hints of honey, saffron, papaya and melon.

    Not Just For Renaissance Fairs: Mead Producers Triple In 10 Years AP 2010

  • Unlike 2-row and 6-row malts, typical American base malts that provide the generally malty flavors of beer, Vienna malts provide a stronger malty flavor and very slight "biscuity" bright and bread-like flavor.

    Since It's So Cold Out, Let's Talk About Snowshoes 2008

  • Unlike 2-row and 6-row malts, typical American base malts that provide the generally malty flavors of beer, Vienna malts provide a stronger malty flavor and very slight "biscuity" bright and bread-like flavor.

    Archive 2008-01-01 2008

  • Based on the residue from drinking vessels discovered inside the golden king's 2,700-year-old tomb, the concoction is described as "biscuity" and "succulent," with hints of honey, saffron, papaya and melon.

    The Seattle Times 2010

  • Based on the residue from drinking vessels discovered inside the golden king's 2,700-year-old tomb, the concoction is described as "biscuity" and "succulent," with hints of honey, saffron, papaya and melon.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

  • Based on the residue from drinking vessels discovered inside the golden king's 2,700-year-old tomb, the concoction is described as "biscuity" and "succulent," with hints of honey, saffron, papaya and melon.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2010

  • On first sip, their wines are a revelation, taking on a nutty, biscuity complexity usually associated with Champagne.

    A Revelation About Cava Will Lyons 2011

  • I vote prosecco, if not toasty, biscuity champagne, as dry as possible.

    Christmas fruitcake: impossible food-wine pairing?!? | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

  • Instead of soft clouds of sweetly sour fruit tucked beneath a comforting blanket of biscuity pastry, the tatin brazenly displays its wares, stickily caramelised and decadently buttery, on the outside – the humble base reduced to a mere vehicle for the apples in their sugary finery.

    How to cook perfect tarte tatin 2011

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  • Biscuity stone, thunder-grey slate roof, modest pepper-pot towers at each corner.

    — Julian Barnes, 1996, 'Gnossienne', in Cross Channel

    July 10, 2008

  • Is "Cross Channel" the book in which he writes, so memorably, about the fizzy foxes? Or was it in "Something to Declare"?

    July 10, 2008

  • It depends whether it's in the last few stories, which I haven't read yet.

    July 10, 2008