Other forms: scones
A scone is a small plain cake split and spread with cream and jam. A cheese scone, a warm scone, scones and tea.
How it rhymes divides Britain more reliably than politics: gone in some places, own in others, and neither side gives ground. Whether cream or jam goes on first divides Devon from Cornwall in the same way. The dough should be handled as little as possible.
1nounsconeA small plain cake split and spread with cream and jam.
“We stopped at a tea room for a pot of tea and a warm scone.”
scone is a cake.
Originally Scots, probably from a Low German or Dutch word for fine white bread.
Scottish Gaelic
sgonn — lump, mouthful
Middle Dutch
schoonbroot — fine bread; a kind of flat angular loaf
Middle Low German
schö̂ne — fine flour bread
English, today
scone
Built from
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”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA