scone
skohn
- n small biscuit (rich with cream and eggs) cut into diamonds or sticks and baked in an oven or (especially originally) on a griddle
- While all times are good for a Scot to eat a scone, the English have scones only at teatime.
- The restaurant's breakfast offerings were scone, egg and sausage sandwich.
- Susan, the distinguished professor, held jobs variously as a clerk at a scone shop, an assistant editor in a magazine and a Lieutenant in the Army.