biscuitlike
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biscuit — biscuitlike, adj. /bis kit/, n. 1. a kind of bread in small, soft cakes, raised with baking powder or soda, or sometimes with yeast. 2. Chiefly Brit. a. a dry and crisp or hard bread in thin, flat cakes, made without yeast or other raising agent; … Universalium
scone — /skohn, skon/, n. 1. a small, light, biscuitlike quick bread made of oatmeal, wheat flour, barley meal, or the like. 2. biscuit (def. 1). [1505 15; shortened < earlier D schoonbrot fine bread, white bread. See SHEEN, BREAD] * * * ▪ New South… … Universalium
cookielike — adjective Resembling a cookie or some aspect of one. Everyone laughed again, as Zoar removed a piece of wrapped up, cookielike pastry from a belt pack he wore. Syn: biscuitlike … Wiktionary
scone — [[t]skoʊn, skɒn[/t]] n. coo a light, biscuitlike quick bread, often baked on a griddle • Etymology: 1505–15; orig. Scots, perh. shortened < earlier D schoonbrot fine bread, white bread. See sheen, bread … From formal English to slang
