butterscotch

[ buht-er-skoch ]

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

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

  1. a golden brown color.

adjective
  1. having the flavor of butterscotch.

Origin of butterscotch

1
First recorded in 1850–55; earlier also butterscot; the 2nd element of the compound is unexplained

Words Nearby butterscotch

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How to use butterscotch in a sentence

  • Chocolate chips or butterscotch chips, walnuts or pecans, coffee or peanut butter or dried fruit…yes, the list goes on and on.

    An Unbeatable Brownie | Cookstr.com | November 5, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • Even Doncaster butterscotch is more familiar than Doncaster piety, but the Church is particularly active here, nevertheless.

  • Doncaster, out of the season, is a singularly quiet and inoffensive town, and looks as innocent as its native butterscotch.

  • But he wrote other poetry—poetry which everybody knows—poetry as familiar in every child's mouth as butterscotch.

  • The cream pies were on a stick, and coated with chocolate, butterscotch, and vanilla with coconut.

    The Blue Ghost Mystery | Harold Leland Goodwin
  • "I'm no saying Jacinta's no fascinating, an' I've seen ye looking at her like a laddie eyeing a butterscotch," he said.

    For Jacinta | Harold Bindloss

British Dictionary definitions for butterscotch

butterscotch

/ (ˈbʌtəˌskɒtʃ) /


noun
  1. a kind of hard brittle toffee made with butter, brown sugar, etc

    • a flavouring made from these ingredients

    • (as modifier): butterscotch icing

Origin of butterscotch

1
C19: perhaps first made in Scotland, or perhaps from scotch 1 (sense 3), 'to cut or score', because it was originally cut with a knife into small pieces

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