butterscotchy

English

Etymology

butterscotch +‎ -y

Adjective

butterscotchy (comparative more butterscotchy, superlative most butterscotchy)

1. Resembling or characteristic of butterscotch.
   • 1989, Duncan Macdonald, R-Type (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 37, January 1989

     An unmissable shoot 'em up. As addictive as Angel Delight and twice as butterscotchy.

   • 1994, Dennis Schaefer, Vintage talk: conversations with California's new winemakers:

     The yeast seems to take up some of the malolactic bug by-products, especially diacetyl, and therefore reduces that butterscotchy aroma.

Synonyms

• butterscotchlike