without biscuits

A form of without tea and biscuits — Inquisitorial, severe.

Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

prepositional phrase
  1. alternativeAlternative form of without tea and biscuits

    DD rang the chief constable and threatened to ‘give him an interview without biscuits’ (?).

    2006 October 7, Tamzin Lightwater, “Diary of a Notting Hill Nobody”, in The Spectator
Cite this entry
APA

without biscuits. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/without%20biscuits

MLA

“without biscuits.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/without%20biscuits. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “without biscuits,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/without%20biscuits.

Source: without biscuits on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.