scone
noun/skɒn/, /skəʊn/
/skɑːn/, /skəʊn/
- a small round cake, sometimes with dried fruit in it and often eaten with butter, jam and cream spread on itTopics Foodc2Word Originearly 16th cent. (originally Scots): perhaps from Middle Dutch schoon(broot) ‘fine (bread)’.
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