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sconut en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of scone + doughnut/donut.

Meanings

1. A baked good consisting of deep-fried scone dough.
   • Sconut Is the Next Incarnation in Donut Evolution 2019, Chris Kennedy, Web. Write. Sell.: Write Ads, Headlines, and Calls to Action That People Can’t Help But Click, Questing Vole Press, →ISBN:
   • I thought I loved scones made the regular way, but that’s before I’d ever had a sconut. 2014, Dorothy Kern, Dessert Mashups: Tasty Two-in-One Treats Including Sconuts, S’morescake and Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie, Ulysses Press, →ISBN, page 21:
   • In the time it took for the #Sconebro bread artisans to perfect the bushberry sconut, Tabitha admitted to more evidence of her involvement in Crewe’s death. 2019, Livia Day, Keep Calm and Kill the Chef, Twelfth Planet Press, →ISBN:
   • Oatmeal Sconuts 2007, Good Housekeeping, page 192:
   • Mini Sconuts / Deep-frying balls of buttermilk-powered scone dough is a rare misstep from the fair’s best bakery. 2017 August 26, Rick Nelson, “New fair food finds, flops”, in Star Tribune, volume XXXVI, number 144:
   • A ‘Sconut’ is a fusion of a scone and a donut, taking the best parts of both to form one. […] To assemble your Sconuts, slice in half, pipe with whipped cream and add a dollop of strawberry jam. 2019 February 23, “Fusion of scone and donut a match made in heaven”, in Rotorua Daily Post:
   • Maple Bacon Sconuts 2014 April 28, “August First Bakery Maple Week!”, in Burlington Free Press, page 13A:
   • Matt Berg of Oakdale had just tried some sconuts (a scone-doughnut hybrid) at the French Meadow Bakery stand when he saw the Republican Party booth across the street and decided to peruse the clothing. 2019 August 28, Jessie Van Berkel, “Politics a side dish at the fair”, in Star Tribune, volume XXXVIII, number 146, page A7:

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