Dictionary

scone en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• skŏn (Received-Pronunciation)
• /skɒn/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /skɔn/ (British, Multicultural-London-English, Southern, Standard)
• /skɑn/ (General-American)
• skŏn (General-American)
• (UK) audio
• skōn (Received-Pronunciation)
• /skəʊ̯n/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• skŏn (British, Multicultural-London-English, Southern, Standard)
• skōn (General-American)
• (Australia) audio
• /skoʊ̯n/ (General-American)

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”).

Meanings

1. A small, rich, pastry or quick bread, sometimes baked on a griddle.
   • 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):
   • On Wednesdays I go shopping / And have buttered scones for tea 1975 [1969], “The Lumberjack Song”, performed by Monty Python:
2. (qualifier:Utah; Idaho; Utah; Idaho) 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. 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:
3. (Australia, New-Zealand, informal) The head.
   • 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:
   • …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:

Forms

Deriveds

dropped scone · drop scone · potato scone · girdle scone · feed two birds with one scone · sconut

Descendants

sikoni

Relateds

tatty scone · tattie scone

Translations (30)

sv scones (pastry) · es scon (pastry) · cs koláček (pastry) · kw skonsen (pastry) · de Teegebäck (pastry) · hu pogácsa (pastry) · ga scónsa (pastry) · bg скон (pastry) · sco scone (pastry) · nl scone (pastry) · yi סקאָן (pastry) · eo skono (pastry) · nrf gâche dé lait d'beurre (pastry) · cs vdoleček (pastry) · bg английска кифличка (pastry) · ko 스콘 (pastry) · ja スコーン (pastry) · cmn 司康 (pastry) · fi skonssi (pastry) · es escón (pastry) · cy sgonsen (pastry) · cy sgon (pastry) · ru скон (pastry) · gd sgona (pastry) · ga bonnóg (pastry) · fr scone (pastry) · es scone (pastry) · gd bonnach (pastry) · cmn 烤餅 /烤饼 (pastry) · cs buchtička (pastry)

scone en · VERB

Pronunciation

• skŏn (Received-Pronunciation)
• /skɒn/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /skɔn/ (British, Multicultural-London-English, Southern, Standard)
• /skɑn/ (General-American)
• skŏn (General-American)
• (UK) audio
• skōn (Received-Pronunciation)
• /skəʊ̯n/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• skŏn (British, Multicultural-London-English, Southern, Standard)
• skōn (General-American)
• (Australia) audio
• /skoʊ̯n/ (General-American)

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”).

Meanings

1. (Australia, New-Zealand, slang, transitive) To hit on the head.

Forms