scone
/skoʊ̯n/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.74 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Frybread served with honey butter spread on it.
name
A town in the Upper Hunter council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia
Example Sentences
- "On Wednesdays I go shopping / And have buttered scones for tea"
- "Well, that's all right, then, Brian. Sit down. Have a scone. Make yourself at home. You klutz!"
- "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."
- "…the white ball left a 5cm gash on his scone despite a floppy white hat absorbing some of the impact."
- "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."
- "ROSS: Will you to Scone? MACDUFF: No, cousin, I'll to Fife."
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, schö̂ne, schoonbroot, sgonn
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /skoʊ̯n/
- British English: /skɒn/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Food.