Do you want a biscuit meaning?

A sarcastic response to one who is excited about or seeks praise for a minor or insignificant accomplishment. (A biscuit, in British English, is equivalent to a cookie in American English.)

Where did the phrase risk it to get the biscuit come from?

Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang says it’s from Ireland in the 1980s [free registration required]. “Risked it for a Biscuit” is found as a Irish newspaper headline from 1966, but it’s not clear whether this was a reference to a commonly-used phrase or the headline-writer was being creative.

What does biscuit mean in rap?

Biscuit means not just a gun, but, specifically, a stolen gun.

What does kiss my biscuit mean?

Composition. Musically, “Biscuit” is a pop song in which Levan sings about kissing her “biscuit”, which is a euphemism for her buttocks, derived from the Southern expression “butter my butt and call me a biscuit”.

Why is it called a biscuit?

The term biscuit comes to English from the French biscuit (bis-qui), which itself has a Latin root: panis biscotus refers to bread twice-cooked. The Romans certainly had a form of biscuit, what we’d now call a rusk and, as the name suggests, it was essentially bread which was re-baked to make it crisp.

Would you risk it for a biscuit meaning?

The phrase means, ‘to get the reward, you have to take the risk’. In regards to where it derived from, I honestly don’t know, but I believe that Matthew Shine’s answer is probably the more accurate of them.

Who says risk it to get the biscuit?

Shawn Colfax : You gotta risk it to get the biscuit.

Who said risk it for the biscuit?

Shawn Colfax
Shawn Colfax : You gotta risk it to get the biscuit.

What does biscuit mean in the UK?

To most of the rest of the English-speaking world, a biscuit is what Americans would refer to as either a cookie or a cracker. A British biscuit is an American cookie and an American cookie is a British cookie and an American biscuit is a British scone and an American scone is something else entirely.