Cupcake vs Biscuit - What's the difference?
cupcake | biscuit |
A small cake baked in a paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top.
(slang) An attractive young woman.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 604:
(slang) A weak or effeminate man.
(dated) (Used as a term of endearment)
* 2010 , Kimberly Cates, The Perfect Match
(lb) A cookie .
(UK) A cracker.
(chiefly, North America) A small bread usually made with baking soda, similar in texture to a scone, but usually not sweet.
A form of unglazed earthenware.
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(nautical) The "bread" formerly supplied to naval ships, which was made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes and slowly baked, and which often became infested with weevils.
A light brown colour.
(woodworking) A thin oval wafer of wood or other material inserted into mating slots on pieces of material to be joined to provide gluing surface and strength in shear.
As nouns the difference between cupcake and biscuit
is that cupcake is a small cake baked in a paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top while biscuit is (lb) a cookie.cupcake
English
Noun
(en noun)- Whatever else this cupcake might be up to, she was no piker.
- “Listen, cupcake ,” Cash tried to soothe. “Sometimes when grownups get mad, they say things they don't mean. I'm sure your mother—”
Synonyms
* (small cake) fairy cakebiscuit
English
(wikipedia biscuit)Noun
(en noun)- cheese and biscuits
