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单词 butterscotch
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butterscotch

(bʌtəʳskɒtʃ)
1. uncountable noun
Butterscotch is a hard yellowish-brown sweet made from butter and sugar boiled together.
2. uncountable noun [usually NOUN noun]
A butterscotch flavoured or coloured thing has the flavour or colour of butterscotch.
...butterscotch sauce.

butterscotch in British English

(ˈbʌtəˌskɒtʃ)
noun
1. 
a kind of hard brittle toffee made with butter, brown sugar, etc
2. 
a. 
a flavouring made from these ingredients
b. 
(as modifier)
butterscotch icing
Word origin
C19: perhaps first made in Scotland, or perhaps from scotch1 (sense 3), 'to cut or score', because it was originally cut with a knife into smallpieces

butterscotch in American English

(ˈbʌtərˌskɑtʃ)
noun
1. 
a hard, sticky candy made with brown sugar, butter, etc.
2. 
the flavor of this candy
3. 
a brown syrup with this flavor
adjective
4. 
made of, or having the flavor of, butterscotch

Examples of 'butterscotch' in a sentence
butterscotch

Usually chocolate cake or ice cream with butterscotch sauce.
Jane Asher LOSING IT (2002)
sighed Andrea, as waiters converged to place plates of butterscotch mousse, double chocolate cake and Hawaiian Surprise in front of them.
Cathy Kelly JUST BETWEEN US (2002)
"Her accent was West Indian, Bajan probably, warm and golden as butterscotch pudding.
Terman, Douglas CORMORANT (2002)
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