butterscotch

Noun

a hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar
A hard candy made from butter, brown sugar, syrup and vanilla.
A sauce or syrup made of similar ingredients.
A light brown colour, like that of butterscotch candy.

Adj

Of a light brown colour, like that of butterscotch candy.
Having the flavour of butterscotch.

Origin / Etymology

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.

Scrabble Score: 21

butterscotch is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
butterscotch is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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Words With Friends Score: 24

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