单词 | scone |
释义 | sconen. Originally Scottish. 1. A large round cake made of wheat or barley-meal baked on a griddle; one of the four quadrant-shaped pieces into which such a cake is often cut; more generally, a soft cake of barley- or oatmeal, or wheat-flour, baked in single portions on a griddle or in an oven. Also with defining words, denoting varieties of this cake, as butter scone, potato scone, soda scone, treacle scone; brown scone n. one made of whole meal. drop-scone n. (dropped scone) one made of a small portion of batter dropped on the griddle or on a tin and baked. fried scone n. one in which the ingredients are made into a batter and fried. sweetie scone n. Scottish (see quot. 1808).The Eng. Dial. Dict. has an 18th cent. quot. for ‘three nucket scons’ (three-cornered scones). The context of quot. 1513 below shows that a four-cornered cake was meant. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > griddle cake > scone scone1513 supple scone1786 barley-scone1820 brunie1821 potato scone1885 the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > griddle cake > scone > dropped scone Scotch pancake1767 drop-cake1835 drop-scone1899 pikelet1905 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. iii. 15 The flour sconnis war sett in, by and by, Wyth wther mesis. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 34 Thai hed na breyd bot ry caikis and fustean skonnis maid of flour. 1744 in Scottish Jrnl. Topogr. (1848) I. 334/2, 3 Pyes and Bread and a Currand Scone. 1786 R. Burns Poems 23 On thee [John Barleycorn] aft Scotland chows her cood, In souple scones, the wale o' food! 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at Yule §4 What the vulgar call a sweetie-skon, or a loaf enriched with raisins, currants, and spiceries. 1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor xii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 285 Never had there been such..making of car-cakes and sweet scones. 1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xx. 196 We lay on the bare top of a rock, like scones upon a girdle. 1899 E. F. Heddle Marget at Manse 100 She..would bake drop-scones, and carry in my tea with her own hands. 1899 R. Wallace Country Schoolmaster 20 Potato scones, soda scones, ‘droppet’ scones, treacle scones. 1916 A. S. Neill Dominie Dismissed ix. 118 Margaret..invited me to sample some drop-scones she had been making. 1942 C. Spry Come into Garden, Cook xv. 213 Most people have a good recipe for dropped scones... Drop the batter from a spoon on the hot girdle and turn once. 1956 E. Grierson Second Man ii. 44 Some tea-cake and drop scones and jam. 1977 Age (Melbourne) 18 Jan. 13/4 The cheese souffle looked more like a cheese drop-scone. 2. (More fully scone cap.) ‘The old broad bonnet of the Lowlands’ (Jamieson). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > cap > types of > made from specific material > woollen Scottish cap1553 blue bonnet1568 blue capa1586 Scotch cap1591 statute cap1598 Monmouth1638 Scotch bonnet1641 Highland bonnet1724 Welsh wig1797 scone1820 glengarry1841 beret1850 Balmoral1857 tam-o'-shanter1884 toboggan cap1886 tammy1894 tam1895 toboggan1907 tam1972 1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 322 From the shepherd's shealing..to the pillared palace..—from the scone cap, to the jewelled bonnet. 1826 G. R. Gleig Subaltern xvii The Lowland bonnet, or scone. 3. a. (Always with pronunciation /skɒn/) to do one's scone, to lose one's head, temper. Hence scone-doer, scone-doing. New Zealand slang. ΚΠ 1942 N.Z.E.F. Times (2nd N.Z. Expeditionary Force) 20 Apr. 6 Scone-doer. A person subject to sudden fits of excitement and irritation. 1942 N.Z.E.F. Times (2nd N.Z. Expeditionary Force) 19 Oct. 5 ‘Don't do your plurry scone, Dig!’..‘Who's sconing?’ 1944 F. I. Cooze Kiwis in Pacific i. 8 The camp at Pahantanui was much as all military camps. Tedious training, fatigues, and ‘scone-doing’ from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. 1952 Here & Now (N.Z.) II. iv. 20 Everyone question Rangi. Everyone do the Scone. 1957 M. K. Joseph I'll soldier no More (1958) ix. 167 Gillies finds him a bit of a nagger, but likes him for being efficient and not doing his scone. b. The head. Australian slang. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > [noun] nolleOE headOE topa1225 copc1264 scalpa1300 chiefc1330 crownc1330 jowla1400 poll?a1400 testea1400 ball in the hoodc1400 palleta1425 noddle?1507 costard?1515 nab?1536 neck1560 coxcomb1567 sconce1567 now1568 headpiece1579 mazer1581 mazardc1595 cockcomb1602 costrel1604 cranion1611 pasha1616 noddle pate1622 block1635 cranium1647 sallet1652 poundrel1664 nob1699 crany?1730 knowledge box1755 noodle1762 noggin1769 napper1785 garret1796 pimple1811 knowledge-casket1822 coco1828 cobbra1832 coconut1834 top-piece1838 nut1841 barnet1857 twopenny1859 chump1864 topknot1869 conk1870 masthead1884 filbert1886 bonce1889 crumpet1891 dome1891 roof1897 beanc1905 belfry1907 hat rack1907 melon1907 box1908 lemon1923 loaf1925 pound1933 sconec1945 nana1966 c1945 in S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. (1966) viii. 172 Scone, head. 1957 D. Niland Call me when Cross turns Over v. 138 I can just see you running a house. I'd give you a week before you went off your scone. 1968 D. O'Grady Bottle of Sandwiches 58 He reckoned we weren't right in the scone to be travelling so far on a Sunday just to chase a ball around a paddock. Compounds scone-hot adj. Australian slang in to go (someone) scone-hot, to reprimand (someone) severely, to lose one's temper at (someone); see also quot. 1941. ΚΠ 1938 X. Herbert Capricornia 530 Halfcaste Shillingsworth goes Copra Co scone-hot! 1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 63 Scone-hot, an intensive to describe great vigour of attack, scolding or speed, e.g., ‘Go for someone scone-hot’, to reprimand severely. (2) Exorbitant, unreasonable. (3) Expert, proficient, e.g., ‘He's scone-hot at shearing’. 1944 Coast to Coast 1943 116 I don't want Reg going me scone hot because his wife's not capable of looking after herself. 1967 K. Tennant Tell Morning This (1968) xvii. 139 When my big brother Jim come home from work, he went Dad scone hot. 1974 D. Ireland Burn 136 When he finds out he'll go me scone-hot. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2022). sconev. Australian and New Zealand slang. transitive. To hit. ΚΠ 1948 Coast to Coast 1947 187 The bottle broke. Damn! he hadn't meant to scone the bottle first go-off. 1958 I. Cross God Boy iv. 30 Joe was worried in case he had really sconed the girl. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1513v.1948 |
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