noun
butterscotch
BUH-tuh-skoch
noun
1
A hard candy or sauce made from butter, brown sugar, and syrup.
"Grandma always kept a tin of butterscotch on the shelf."
"The cake was drizzled with warm butterscotch sauce."
How to Use Butterscotch
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA sweet, buttery brown-sugar candy or sauce, and also its warm brownish color.
Common pairings
butterscotch sauce
butterscotch candy
Word Forms
butterscotches plural
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Etymology
From butter plus a form of "scotch" meaning "to score/nick" — describing how the hardened candy is scored to make it easy to break apart, not a reference to Scotland or scotch whisky.