butterscotchy

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English

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Etymology

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From butterscotch +‎ -y.

Adjective

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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.

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