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Scone
Definitions
- 1 A village north of Perth in Scotland; the coronation site of Scottish kings until 1651
"ROSS: Will you to Scone? MACDUFF: No, cousin, I'll to Fife."
- 2 A town in the Upper Hunter council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia
- 1 A small, rich, pastry or quick bread, sometimes baked on a griddle.
"On Wednesdays I go shopping / And have buttered scones for tea"
- 2 small biscuit (rich with cream and eggs) cut into diamonds or sticks and baked in an oven or (especially originally) on a griddle wordnet
- 3 Frybread served with honey butter spread on it.
"Dinner rolls and deep-fried crusty scones that border on loaf-size or juicy fruit pies tagged with county-fair blue ribbons rise from backroad eating sites."
- 4 The head. Australia, New-Zealand, informal
"…the white ball left a 5cm gash on his scone despite a floppy white hat absorbing some of the impact."
- 1 To hit on the head. Australia, New-Zealand, slang, transitive
Etymology
Originally Scots, possibly from Middle Low German schö̂ne (“fine flour bread”), or Middle Dutch schoonbroot (“fine bread; a kind of flat angular loaf”), from schoon (“fine”) + broot (“bread”); alternatively, Scottish Gaelic sgonn (“lump, mouthful”).
Originally Scots, possibly from Middle Low German schö̂ne (“fine flour bread”), or Middle Dutch schoonbroot (“fine bread; a kind of flat angular loaf”), from schoon (“fine”) + broot (“bread”); alternatively, Scottish Gaelic sgonn (“lump, mouthful”).
Possibly of Teutonic/West Germanic origin, from Proto-West Germanic *skaunī (“fine, beautiful”), the source of modern German schön. Or, alternatively from Scottish Gaelic sgonn (“block, lump, hunk”); in either case, it would probably be related to English scone (“small biscuit”).
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