biscuity
adjEtymology From biscuit + -y.
1
Resembling or characteristic of a biscuit.
- Mouthfilling and creamy-smooth, it is peachy and slightly spicy, with biscuity, toasty notes in a high-flavoured, moderately complex style, for drinking now or cellaring.2012, Michael Cooper, Buyer's Guide to New Zealand Wines 2013:
- Another tester, however, found the biscuit extremely dry and referred back to the assessment rubric: “It didn’t have an even golden brown colour. It was biscuity, but wasn’t perfumed with golden syrup or earthy with oats. Would I feed it to my grandma? Probably not. She’d choke.”2023 April 22, Yvonne C. Lam, “Supermarket Anzac biscuit taste test: from ‘beautiful’ to ‘an intense workout’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2023:
- Derived terms
- biscuitiness