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TEA BISCUIT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tea biscuit mean?
• TEA BISCUIT (noun)
The noun TEA BISCUIT has 1 sense:
1. flat semisweet cookie or biscuit usually served with tea
Familiarity information: TEA BISCUIT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Flat semisweet cookie or biscuit usually served with tea
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
tea biscuit; teacake
Hypernyms ("tea biscuit" is a kind of...):
biscuit; cookie; cooky (any of various small flat sweet cakes ('biscuit' is the British term))
Domain region:
Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
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