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butterscotchy

butterscotchy adjective: resembling or characteristic of butterscotch.

Adjective

butterscotchy (comparative more butterscotchy, superlative most butterscotchy)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of butterscotch.
    • An unmissable shoot 'em up. As addictive as Angel Delight and twice as butterscotchy.1989, Duncan Macdonald, R-Type (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 37, January 1989
    • The yeast seems to take up some of the malolactic bug by-products, especially diacetyl, and therefore reduces that butterscotchy aroma.1994, Dennis Schaefer, Vintage talk: conversations with California's new winemakers

Synonyms of butterscotchy

Forms of butterscotchy

comparativemore butterscotchy
superlativemost butterscotchy

Origin of butterscotchy

From butterscotch + -y.

Questions about butterscotchy

What does butterscotchy mean?
Butterscotchy means resembling or characteristic of butterscotch.
What part of speech is butterscotchy?
Butterscotchy is an adjective.

Words near butterscotchy in the dictionary

  1. butters up
  2. butterscotch
  3. butterscotched
  4. butterscotches
  5. butterscotchlike
  6. butterscotchy
  7. Butterses
  8. butterspoon
  9. butterspoon tree
  10. butterspoon trees
  11. butterspoons

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