scone
IPA: skˈoʊn
noun
- A small, rich, pastry or quick bread, sometimes baked on a griddle.
- (Utah, Idaho) Frybread served with honey butter spread on it.
- (informal, Australia, New Zealand) The head.
- A village north of Perth in Scotland; the coronation site of Scottish kings until 1651
verb
- (transitive, slang, Australia, New Zealand) To hit on the head.
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Examples of "scone" in Sentences
- The origin of the name 'scone' is just as unclear as where it came from.
- A scone is much closer to a cookie than a piece of custardy french toast, after all!
- The traditional method for making a scone is to cut cold butter into a flour mixture, much like making biscuits or pie crust.
- Inviting someone over for a cup of tea and a scone is a great motivation to getting something done in a reasonable amount of time.
- The scone is a fairly basic vanilla scone, dropped in slightly flatten balls on the baking sheet to look more like cookies than scones that were rolled out and cut.
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