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scone

UK/skuːn/ US/skəʊ̯n/ uncommon informal slang

noun

1.

small biscuit (rich with cream and eggs) cut into diamonds or sticks and baked in an oven or (especially originally) on a griddle

Origin

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, might derive from Scottish Gaelic sgonn (“lump, mouthful”).

Phrases

  • drop scone
  • dropped scone
  • feed two birds with one scone
  • girdle scone
  • potato scone
  • tattie scone
  • tatty scone

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