Meanings
plural sconuts
- A baked good consisting of deep-fried scone dough.
Oatmeal Sconuts
2007, Good Housekeeping, page 1925 more examples
I thought I loved scones made the regular way, but that’s before I’d ever had a sconut.
2014, Dorothy Kern, Dessert Mashups: Tasty Two-in-One Treats Including Sconuts, S’morescake and Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie, Ulysses Press, →ISBN, page 21Maple Bacon Sconuts
2014 April 28, “August First Bakery Maple Week!”, in Burlington Free Press, page 13AMini Sconuts / Deep-frying balls of buttermilk-powered scone dough is a rare misstep from the fair’s best bakery.
2017 August 26, Rick Nelson, “New fair food finds, flops”, in Star Tribune, volume XXXVI, number 144In the time it took for the #Sconebro bread artisans to perfect the bushberry sconut, Tabitha admitted to more evidence of her involvement in Crewe’s death.
2019, Livia Day, Keep Calm and Kill the Chef, Twelfth Planet Press, →ISBNSconut Is the Next Incarnation in Donut Evolution
2019, Chris Kennedy, Web. Write. Sell.: Write Ads, Headlines, and Calls to Action That People Can’t Help But Click, Questing Vole Press, →ISBN
Origin
Blend of scone + doughnut/donut.
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sconut. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sconut
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