Scotch kiss
- noun
- /skɑtʃ kɪs/
- UK
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beso escocés
- The bakery sells homemade Scotch kisses filled with creamy marshmallow.
Examples
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She remembered her grandmother always keeping a jar of Scotch kisses on the counter.
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He handed me a Scotch kiss wrapped in gold foil as a small treat.
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I love Scotch kisses during the holidays.
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Have you tried a Scotch kiss before?
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She remembered her grandmother always keeping a jar of Scotch kisses on the counter.
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The bakery sells homemade Scotch kisses filled with creamy marshmallow.
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He handed me a Scotch kiss wrapped in gold foil as a small treat.
Synonyms
26
4.4
A small sweet candy often made of chocolate and wrapped in foil
18
2.6
A sweet hard candy made from butter and brown sugar
1
2.6
A small cone of chocolate wrapped in shiny foil
A small wrapped piece of chocolate you eat in one bite
A small sweet made from whipped egg whites and sugar, baked until crisp
A small chewy sweet made from thick dark sugar syrup, often wrapped
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is compositionally interpretable: 'kiss' (a small candy) modified by 'Scotch' suggests a particular kind of candy, so a learner who knows both constituents can plausibly infer it is a sweet. However, the precise sense (whether it refers to a Scottish origin, a scotch/butterscotch flavor, or a specific traditional confection) and the cultural knowledge that this is a named candy are not fully predictable, making the relation only partly transparent.
Etymology
The candy Scotch kiss gets its name from Scotch (short for 'butterscotch') and kiss (a small sweet shaped like a kiss). That image of a little drop of butterscotch, sometimes with a soft marshmallow center, explains why the name now means this kind of small sweet treat.