{
    "term": "biscuit",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a small flat dry cake for one person, usually sweet, and baked until hard",
            "labels": "(British English)",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a packet/tin of chocolate biscuits"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a selection of cheese biscuits"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The cake has a biscuit base *(= one made from crushed biscuits)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We were offered a cup of tea and some biscuits."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Frank always dunks his biscuits in his tea."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He brushed the biscuit crumbs from his jacket."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was cutting biscuits out and putting them on a baking tray."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a packet of coconut biscuits"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Food"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["dry", "hard", "flaky"],
                "… of biscuits": ["box", "packet", "tin"],
                "verb + biscuit": ["eat", "have", "nibble"],
                "biscuit + noun": ["barrel", "tin", "crumbs"],
                "phrases": ["cheese and biscuits", "biscuits and gravy"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a soft bread roll, often eaten with gravy",
            "labels": "(North American English)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Food"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a pale yellow-brown colour",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be the most surprising, annoying, etc. thing that has happened or that somebody has done",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "You've done some stupid things before, but this really takes the biscuit!"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbɪskɪt/",
                "audio": "bi/biscuit/biscuit__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbɪskɪt/",
                "audio": "bi/biscuit/biscuit__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French bescuit, based on Latin bis ‘twice’ + coctus, past participle of coquere ‘to cook’ (so named because originally biscuits were cooked in a twofold process: first baked and then dried out in a slow oven so that they would keep)."
}