biscuity

comparative more biscuity · superlative most biscuity · alternative biscuitty

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

   2 more examples

   I recall the scent of some kind of toilet powder - I believe she stole it from her mother's Spanish maid - a sweetish, lowly, musky perfume. It mingled with her own biscuity odor, and my feelings were suddenly filled to the brim; a sudden commotion in a nearby bush prevented them from overflowing - and as we drew away from each other, and with aching veins attended to what was probably a prowling cat, there came from the house her mother's voice calling her, with a rising frantic note - and Dr. Cooper ponderously limped out into the garden.

   1955 September 15, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Paris: The Olympia Press […], →OCLC

   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