Triscuit

English

Etymology

Marketing coinage, said to be from electricity and biscuit, though historical evidence is lacking;[1] sources from around the time of its introduction interpreted the name to mean "thrice-cooked" (from tris-), like biscuit is ultimately from bis (“twice”) cuit (“cooked, baked”).[2]

Noun

Triscuit (plural Triscuits)

  1. (US, Canada) A kind of wholewheat cracker.

References
  1. Triscuit endorsement of the "electricity" theory; cf earlier response from Nabisco
  2. Medical Press and Circular, volume 127 (29 July 1903), page 130

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