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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 teaplay

  Familiarity information: TEA BISCUIT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TEA BISCUIT (noun)


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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