butterscotch

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• General-American: /ˈbʌtɚˌskɑt͡ʃ/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbʌtəˌskɒtʃ/
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• CMU ARPABET: B AH1 T ER0 S K AA2 CH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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.

21 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 奶油糖色的 (nǎiyóutángsè de) — of a light brown colour
• Finnish: toffeenvärinen — of a light brown colour
• Chinese Mandarin: 奶油糖味的 (nǎiyóutángwèi de) — having the flavour of butterscotch
• Finnish: toffeenmakuinen — having the flavour of butterscotch
• Chinese Mandarin: 奶油糖果 (nǎiyóu tángguǒ) — hard candy
• Finnish: voikola — hard candy
• Finnish: kova toffee — hard candy
• French: caramel au beurre — hard candy
• German: Buttertoffee — hard candy
• Norwegian: fløtekaramell — hard candy
• Polish: karmelek — hard candy
• Portuguese: caramelo — hard candy
• Russian: ири́с (irís) — hard candy
• Russian: ири́ска (iríska) — hard candy
• Thai: บัตเตอร์สกอตช์ (bàt-dtə̂ə-sà-gɔ́t) — hard candy
• Welsh: cyflaith menyn — hard candy
• Yiddish: איריסקע (iriske) — hard candy
• Chinese Mandarin: 奶油糖漿 /奶油糖浆 (nǎiyóu tángjiāng) — sauce or syrup made of similar ingredients
• Finnish: toffeekastike — sauce or syrup made of similar ingredients
• French: caramel — sauce or syrup made of similar ingredients
• Thai: บัตเตอร์สกอตช์ (bàt-dtə̂ə-sà-gɔ́t) — sauce or syrup made of similar ingredients