zwieback, rusk, Brussels biscuit, twice-baked bread
(noun) slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp
Source: WordNet® 3.1
zwieback (countable and uncountable, plural zwiebacks)
a usually sweetened bread enriched with eggs that is baked and then sliced and toasted until dry and crisp
a teething food for toddler children
Source: Wiktionary
Zwie"back`, n. [G., fr. zwie-two, twice (see Twice) + backen to bake.]
Definition: A kind of biscuit or rusk first baked in a loaf and afterwards cut and toasted.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
6 June 2025
(noun) wit having a sharp and caustic quality; “he commented with typical pungency”; “the bite of satire”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
