Butterscotch


a flavor produced in puddings, frostings, ice cream, etc., by combining brown sugar, vanilla extract, and butter with other ingredients.
a hard, brittle taffy made with butter, brown sugar, etc.
a golden brown color.
having the flavor of butterscotch.
Contemporary Examples

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Historical Examples

For Jacinta Harold Bindloss
We Two Edna Lyall
The Great North Road: London to York Charles G. Harper
The Art Of The Moving Picture Vachel Lindsay
The Woman from Outside Hulbert Footner
Torchy Sewell Ford
The Haunts of Old Cockaigne Alex Thompson

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

a flavouring made from these ingredients
(as modifier): butterscotch icing

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