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 

• BUTTERSCOTCH (noun)

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)