shortbread

[shawrt-bred]

short·bread

[shawrt-bred]
noun
a butter cookie commonly made in thick, pie-shaped wheels or rolled and cut in fancy shapes.

Origin:
1795–1805; short + bread
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Shortbread is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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shortbread (ˈʃɔːtˌbrɛd)
 
n
a rich crumbly biscuit made from dough with a large proportion of butter
 
[C19: from short (in the sense: crumbly)]

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