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gundy

nounfood

Traditional Shetland toffee-like sweet

A traditional Shetland homemade toffee-like sweet made by boiling sugar and butter with treacle or syrup.

Example in use

Aw'll sav a wee bit o gundy for the bairns.

Pronunciation

Say it like this

/GUN-dee/

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