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BUTTERSCOTCH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does butterscotch mean?
• BUTTERSCOTCH (noun)
The noun BUTTERSCOTCH has 1 sense:
1. a hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar
Familiarity information: BUTTERSCOTCH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("butterscotch" is a kind of...):
candy; confect (a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts)
Context examples
A characteristic of a medicinal product, specifying that its most predominant agreeable savor detected by the unified sensation of taste and olfactory receptors resembles butterscotch.
(Butterscotch Flavor, NCI Thesaurus)
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