tea biscuit

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   flat semisweet cookie or biscuit usually served with tea

   Synonymsteacake

   Broadercookie

   United Kingdom

Questions about tea biscuit

What does tea biscuit mean?

tea biscuit means "flat semisweet cookie or biscuit usually served with tea".

What is another word for tea biscuit?

Close synonyms include teacake. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tea biscuit a common word?

tea biscuit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.