noun
scone
SKAHN/skɑːn/
A small quick bread, often slightly sweet.
The split golden scone rests with jam beside a cup of tea.
Etymology
The name probably comes from a term meaning “fine bread,” emphasizing the bread’s quality. Its early Scottish meaning, “thin, flat, soft cake,” connects today’s tea bread with an older cake sense.
In context
you've got a nice cup of tea in the dollar world pavilion and a buttered you get a nice buttered scone and what's the other thing they do is lots of jam
More examples
- The bakery sells cranberry scones every morning.
- These cheese scones go well with tomato soup.
- I order a blueberry scone with my tea.
Forms
scone · scones