scone

/skɒn/

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British/skɔn/

scone noun: a small, rich, pastry or quick bread, sometimes baked on a griddle.

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Noun

scone (plural scones)

A small, rich, pastry or quick bread, sometimes baked on a griddle.
- On Wednesdays I go shopping / And have buttered scones for tea1975 [1969], “The Lumberjack Song”, performed by Monty Python
- 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)
(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
(Australia, New Zealand, informal) The head.
- …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
- 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

Verb

scone (third-person singular simple present scones, present participle sconing, simple past and past participle sconed)

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

Proper noun capitalized: Scone

IPA/skuːn/

Scone

A village north of Perth in Scotland; the coronation site of Scottish kings until 1651
- ROSS: Will you to Scone?
  MACDUFF: No, cousin, I'll to Fife.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
A town in the Upper Hunter council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia

Examples of scone in a sentence

I like to have scones with jam and clotted cream for afternoon tea.
Ghosts and campfires go hand in hand, so why not feed two birds with one scone?
It had nothing to do with the fact they also made the fluffiest scones she’d ever tasted.

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Forms of scone

Noun
plural	scones
Verb
third-person singular present	scones
present participle	sconing
past participle	sconed
past	sconed

Plural of scone: scones

Origin of scone

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”).

Borrowed from Scots Scone.

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Questions about scone

What does scone mean?: Scone means a small, rich, pastry or quick bread, sometimes baked on a griddle.
What part of speech is scone?: Scone can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce scone?: Scone is pronounced /skɒn/ (UK).
What is the plural of scone?: The plural of scone is scones.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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