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1A small unsweetened or lightly sweetened cake made from flour, fat, and milk and sometimes having added fruit.
- ‘But what I also found tantilisingly awaiting me behind the counter was a stack of freshly baked Russian tea cakes and lemon scones, both of which I purchased and consumed in startling quantities.’
- ‘These are accompanied by all manner of sandwiches, scones and cakes piled onto tiered stands.’
- ‘Diane made some scones and there was fruit and such.’
- ‘The Caribou orange-currant scone is a scone without integrity.’
- ‘No gentle reader, the raisin scone was the scone of the gods.’
- ‘Breakfast items include freshly baked scones, muffins and a cheese omelet as well as coffee, espresso, cappuccino and latte.’
- ‘A wide range of desserts includes everything from fruit scones to apple pie or a plate of petits desserts.’
- ‘It is more to do with the fact that I rather enjoy having a reason to bake scones, flip pikelets and occasionally bake a cake.’
- ‘Buttered scones seem best, not too lavish as a pre-tea snack; we eat them with mugs of tea as dad goes out to feed the pigs in the yard and Mum and Aunty Eileen start cooking.’
- ‘The spa is at the end of the garden, where, if you can find a waiter capable of boiling a kettle and buttering a scone, you can take tea.’
- ‘Bake for 15 minutes, until the scones have risen and turned lightly golden.’
- ‘In the afternoon, why not tea and scones - except skip the tea, eat the scones!’
- ‘The sandwiches, scones and cakes were served by the waitress in a tiered silver cake stand.’
- ‘British-style afternoon tea is still popular, complete with scones, cakes, and other pastries, especially when entertaining guests.’
- ‘For this, adults and children all over the kingdom were getting ready for the feast at night, making great mountains of cakes, scones and all other kinds of goodies.’
- ‘Their afternoon tea menu includes a selection of hot and iced teas accompanied by scones with jam and cream, finger sandwiches, and assorted small pastries, as well as small bites taken from trays.’
- ‘But my strawberry scones are something else entirely.’
- ‘The book is a melting pot of information, with anecdotes, photographs and recipes ranging from tons of game to the scones we now know the Queen feeds to the corgis.’
- ‘First, there will be pineapple scones, still warm from the baking sheet, and a cloth-lined tin of cinnamon muffins and apple-spice bread.’
- ‘There would be scones and jams for the children to gorge themselves on, and all sorts of pies and pasties, but what truly intrigued me were the tongue sandwiches that no hamper seemed to be complete without.’
2Australian informal A person's head.
‘he tapped his scone and said, 'off the top of my head'’- ‘When I was able, I stood up and hobbled around; similar quantities of blood were spurting out of my knee as my scone.’
- ‘During my last prang, my helmet impacted with the tarmac with a sickening crunch: that could have been my scone.’
- ‘My helmet whacked into the concrete with a bit of a bang, but better that the helmet does it than my scone.’
- ‘You will still hurt from going over backwards, but your scone should still be in one piece.’
- ‘Just because you are not on the road, it doesn't mean you can't crack your scone on the concrete.’
- ‘Used to do his scone in completely if everything wasn't just so.’
- ‘He got the idea in his scone that you might both be on the loose out here.’
- ‘It's nothing to do your scone over.’
- ‘"Get your scone down, you drongo!" someone yelled at me, and the boom thundered over my head.’
- ‘My hair had grown out again and was sticking up off my scone like a parrot's crest.’
Usage
There are two possible pronunciations of the word scone: the first rhymes with gone and the second rhymes with tone. In US English the pronunciation rhyming with tone is more common. In British English the two pronunciations traditionally have different regional and class associations, with the first pronunciation associated with the north of England and the northern working class, while the second is associated with the south and the middle class
Phrases
- off one's scone
Mad or crazy.
‘a man could go off his scone this way’- ‘I was now officially off my scone with happiness.’
- ‘I'm off my scone and I only smoked a bit.’
- ‘A man could go off his scone this way.’
- ‘Nancy is going to go right off her scone when she hears I've taken this certificate from our family's mortal enemy.’
- ‘They say the moon affects the psyche and that people in the loony bin go right off their scones during full moon.’
- ‘This was the weirdest party you'd ever been to, it was full of crazy people and they were all off their scones.’
- ‘They are off their scones if they think we're going to swallow this CAF rubbish for much longer.’
- ‘Since they are both tripping off their scones, I'm quite concerned.’
Australian informal
Origin
Early 16th century (originally Scots): perhaps from Middle Dutch schoon(broot) ‘fine (bread)’.
Pronunciation
proper noun
An ancient Scottish settlement to the north of Perth, where the kings of medieval Scotland were crowned on the Stone of Destiny.
Pronunciation
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