different between butterscotchlike vs butterscotchy

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butterscotch +? -like

butterscotchlike (comparative more butterscotchlike, superlative most butterscotchlike)

Resembling butterscotch.
- 1992, Institute for Fermentation and Brewing Studies (Boulder, Colorado), The New Brewer: Volumes 9-10
  A touch of butterscotchlike diacetyl.

butterscotch +? -y

butterscotchy (comparative more butterscotchy, superlative most butterscotchy)

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.

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