sconeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: skŏn, skōn, IPA: /skɒn/, /skəʊn/
• (General American) enPR: skōn, skŏn, IPA: /skoʊn/, /skɑn/
• 韻: -ɒn, -əʊn

名詞

scone (plural scones)

1. A small, rich, pastry or quick bread, sometimes baked on a griddle.
   • 1975 [1969], “The Lumberjack Song”, performed by Monty Python:

     On Wednesdays I go shopping / And have buttered scones for tea

   • 1979, Monty Python's Life of Brian, spoken by Reg (John Cleese):

     Well, that's all right, then, Brian. Sit down. Have a scone. Make yourself at home. You klutz!

2. (Utah, Idaho) Frybread served with honey butter spread on it.
   • 1993, Ann Whiting Orton, “A Fork in the Road: Mom-and-Pop Eateries in Far Reaches of Utah Offer Som of the Finest Fair”, in Deseret News:

     Dinner rolls and deep-fried crusty scones that border on loaf-size or juicy fruit pies tagged with county-fair blue ribbons rise from backroad eating sites.

3. (informal, Australia, New Zealand) The head.
   • 2011 February 2, “Power hitting Pakistani leaves mark on lensman”, in Hawke's Bay Today:

     …the white ball left a 5cm gash on his scone despite a floppy white hat absorbing some of the impact.

   • 2015 July 15, “Cogstate can count on rich pipeline of cognitive test trials”, in The Australian:

     After Essendon coach James Hird tumbled off his bike and hit his scone on the unforgiving South Yarra terrain on Monday night, the chances are he was administered the Cogstate concussion test.

派生語

関連する語

• tattie scone, tatty scone

動詞

scone (third-person singular simple present scones, present participle sconing, simple past and past participle sconed)

1. (transitive, slang, Australia, New Zealand) To hit on the head.
   • 2004 December 3, “Sconed by a space rock - and then the headaches started”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

Further reading

• scone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• SENCO, cones, Noces, Cones, econs, cosen, Cosen, onces