different between butterscotch vs butterscotchy

English

Etymology

Butter + scotch, with the second element deriving not from scotch whiskey or Scotland, but from Middle English scocchen (“to score, nick, cut”), in reference to how the candy is boiled and hardened and then usually scored to make breaking it apart easier. The word is usually said to have originally been a trademark of Parkinson's, who is claimed to have invented it.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?t??sk?t?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?t??sk?t?/
• Hyphenation: but?ter?scotch

Noun

butterscotch (usually uncountable, plural butterscotches)

1. A hard candy made from butter, brown sugar, syrup and vanilla.
2. A sauce or syrup made of similar ingredients.
3. A light brown colour, like that of butterscotch candy.

Translations

Adjective

butterscotch (not comparable)

1. Of a light brown colour, like that of butterscotch candy.
2. Having the flavour of butterscotch.

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Colors

English

Etymology

butterscotch +? -y

Adjective

butterscotchy (comparative more butterscotchy, superlative most butterscotchy)

1. Resembling or characteristic of butterscotch.
   • 1989, Duncan Macdonald, R-Type (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 37, January 1989

     An unmissable shoot 'em up. As addictive as Angel Delight and twice as butterscotchy.

   • 1994, Dennis Schaefer, Vintage talk: conversations with California's new winemakers

     The yeast seems to take up some of the malolactic bug by-products, especially diacetyl, and therefore reduces that butterscotchy aroma.

Synonyms

• butterscotchlike