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butterscotch

The origin and history of butterscotch.

Etymology

From butter plus a form of "scotch" meaning "to score/nick" — describing how the hardened candy is scored to make it easy to break apart, not a reference to Scotland or scotch whisky.

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Etymology from freedict-original, original.