scone n.2
(Aus./N.Z.) the head.
 | North West Champion (Moree, NSW) 29 Jan. 5/3: ‘If, however, a man comes in and says, in reply to my greeting, that everything is rotten, I reach down behind the counter and get bold of a mallet, which I keep there for that purpose, and hit him on the scone - that is to say, head’. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Sun (Sydney) 20 Oct. 4/3: Doubtless, the prehistoric inventor of the club felt the same way, when some one bounced his clumsy brain child on his own scone. | |
| Shiralee 122: She clocks him with a fryin’ pan or something, raisin’ a lump on his scone like an egg. | |
| Cop This Lot 41: One bop on the scone an’ they stay down. | |
| (con. 1944) Rats in New Guinea 62: ‘Throw your tin hats away.’ ‘Throw them away? [...] An’ get shot in the scone?’. | |
| Holy Smoke 10: Go on, scram – before y’ get yer scone in the way of that dirty great sword. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | ‘Cuckoo in the Nest’ Steptoe and Son [TV script] One night when he come home a bit Adrian Quist, she smashed him across the scone with a quart jar. | |
| Aus. Women’s Wkly14 Apr. 86/1: Players who religously have their scones bounced on the surface of such arenas as the [...] Sydney Sports Ground. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 97/1: scone head [...] Possibly corruption of old English word ‘sconce’, head. | |
| Penguin Bk of More Aus. Jokes 211: All of a sudden his victim bursts in and belts him on the scone. | |
| Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988]. | |
| Tales of the Honey Badger [ebook] Blair [...] landed a beauty right on old mate’s scone. |
In compounds
(Aus./N.Z.) an over-emotional person.
| 2nd NZEF Times 20 Apr. 6: Scone-doer. A person subject to sudden fits of excitement and irritation [OED]. |
(Aus./N.Z.) emotional instability.
| Kiwis in the Pacific 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 [OED]. |
In phrases
(Aus./N.Z.) to lose one’s temper (with someone).
| Expressions and Sayings 2NZEF 5: Do the Scone (or bun)—Lose the temper—panic [DNZE]. | |
| Ellesmere Guardian (Canterbury) 8 Feb. 2/2: Some phrases [...] ‘doing your scone’ for evincing anger. | |
| For the Rest of Our Lives 102: Come on now, Tony, don’t do your scone. | |
| Gun in My Hand 98: I must say something or I’ll do my scone properly. | |
| Breathing Spaces 97: ‘She’s jake, boys, don’t panic,’ Ted said. ‘Don’t do your scones.’. | |
| Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 97/1: do one’s scone lose one’s temper. | |
| Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988]. |
(Aus.) to plead guilty in court.
| in Sun. Herald (Sydney) 8 June 9/2: ‘Bow the crumpet,’ ‘nod the nut,’ ‘duck the scone,’ all meaning to plead guilty. | |
| Drum. |
eccentric, insane.
| They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 191: Gone in the scone. | |
| Gone Fishin’ 166: I reckon he’s a bit gone in the scone. |
(Aus.) to agree.
| Truth (Brisbane) 24 Feb. 11/3: ‘How say you, Flossie are you going to nod the scone, or argue the toss?’. |
(N.Z.) mad, eccentric.
| Sun (Sydney) 29 Sept. 15/1: Old Brissie the star-gazing gov bumped one of the schemozzles which nearly drove Mac off his scone . | |
| Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 97/1: off one’s scone mad. c.1935. | |
| Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988]. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Gutted 196: You’re off your scone [...] He’s the son of a fucking judge! |
(N.Z.) to act sensibly.
| Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 97/1: use your scone advice to be sensible [...] c.1935. | |
| Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988]. |
In exclamations
an excl. of annoyance, mind your own business! don’t interfere!; an angry retort telling somebody to calm down or suffer the consequences.
| They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 14: When some character picks me for a dill, he is likely to be told quick smart to suck his scone in! [Ibid.] 168: I’m rapidly approaching the stage where I’ve had you. So pull your scone in while it’s still stuck to your neck. | |
| Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 180: Suck your scone in is advice to stop talking nonsense or mind your own business. |
SE in slang uses
In phrases
a generally affectionate term of address.
| Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 158: What I’ll bet has happened, Stilton, old scone. |