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 (ˈʃɔːtˌbrɛd) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
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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Shortbread is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
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.
Example sentences
We alternated syllabub tastes with shortbread cookies.
She's as much an emblem and a tourist draw as tartan, bagpipes, and shortbread.
We double your pleasure by offering not one but two buttery, nutty shortbread
  rounds in each cookie.
The compressed bars, similar to dense shortbread, are highly fortified and
  ready-to-eat.
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