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noun

a flavor produced in puddings, frostings, ice cream, etc., by combining brown sugar, vanilla extract, and butter with other ingredients.

a hard, brittle taffy made with butter, brown sugar, etc.

a golden brown color.

adjective

having the flavor of butterscotch.

Origin:
1850–55; earlier also butterscot; the 2nd element of the compound is unexplained

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butterscotch (ˈbʌtəˌskɒtʃ)

—n
1.	a kind of hard brittle toffee made with butter, brown sugar, etc
2.	a. a flavouring made from these ingredients
	b. (as modifier): butterscotch icing

[C19: perhaps first made in Scotland, or perhaps from scotch¹ (sense 3), 'to cut or score', because it was originally cut with a knife into small pieces]

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