Meaning

1 senses

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

Examples

11 sentences

  1. Let's have scones with our tea.

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  2. Would you like a spot of tea with your scone?

    Бажаєте чашечку чаю до скону? — deniko · CC BY 2.0 FR

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  3. She's having tea with her scone.

    ruОна пьёт чай со сконом. — Karok

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  4. The tea was served with scones.

    deZum Tee wurde Gebäck gereicht. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  5. I want to eat some scones.

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Origin

Originally Scots, possibly from Middle Low German schö̂ne (“fine flour bread”), or Middle

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”).

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Forms

scones, sconing, sconed, sconed
Base formscone · to scone
3rd person singularscones
Present participlesconing
Past simplesconed
Past participlesconed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyscone
he, she, itscones

Past simpleLesson

all personssconed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave sconed
he, she, ithas sconed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill scone

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
scoffC1scoldB1scoochscoop
scone — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto