Noun: scone
| Singular | scone |
| Plural | scones |
Sample Sentences
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On Wednesdays I go shopping / And have buttered scones for tea [1975 [1969], “The Lumberjack Song”, performed by Monty Python:]
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Well, that's all right, then, Brian. Sit down. Have a scone. Make yourself at home. You klutz! [1979, Monty Python's Life of Brian, spoken by Reg (John Cleese):]
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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. [1993, Ann Whiting Orton, “A Fork in the Road: Mom-and-Pop Eateries in Far Reaches of Utah Offer Som of the Finest Fair”, in Deseret News:]
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…the white ball left a 5cm gash on his scone despite a floppy white hat absorbing some of the impact. [2011 February 2, “Power hitting Pakistani leaves mark on lensman”, in Hawke's Bay Today:]
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After Essendon coach James Hird tumbled off his bike and hit his scone on the unforgiving South Yarra terrain on Monday night, the chances are he was administered the Cogstate concussion test. [2015 July 15, “Cogstate can count on rich pipeline of cognitive test trials”, in The Australian:]
Nouns inflected like scone
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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, might derive from Scottish Gaelic sgonn (“lump, mouthful”).
Verbs referencing "scone"
Finnish Nouns
skonssi, Russian Nouns
скон, Icelandic Nouns
skonsa.