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Word entry · 12 letters

butterscotch

Best crossword clue

"Toffee-like sweet"

12 letters · collected on this word page

12 lettersPronunciation /ˈbʌtɚˌskɑt͡ʃ/Part of speech nounSorted bccehorstttuStarts with BEnds with H1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar

Word origin

From butter + scotch, with the second element deriving (not from scotch whiskey or Scotland, but) from Middle English scocchen (“to score, nick, cut”), in reference to how the candy is boiled and hardened and then usually scored to make breaking it apart easier. The word is usually said to have originally been a trademark of Parkinson's, who is claimed to have invented it.

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