butty.
A sandwich, usually with a hot or cold savoury filling buttered in a barmcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.
Meaning & usage
A sandwich, usually with a hot or cold savoury filling buttered in a barmcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.
Let's have a bacon butty!
Where this word comes from
Clipping of buttered sandwich or bun + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian Buutje (“buttered bread (sandwich)”).
A friend.
A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore.
A miner's assistant or apprentice.
A workmate.
A drudge; a cat's paw; someone who does the hard work; someone who is being taken advantage of by someone else.
Ah didn't play butty, ah promise yer. Yo all on yer mek the poor lad yer butty.
One of a pair of shoes or gloves.
I've fund one shoe, but canna see the butty no-weer.
Where this word comes from
Unknown. Perhaps from booty.
To work together; to keep company with.
I butty with Jackson.
To cohabit; to reside with another as a couple.
Did'n'ee 'ear as Jim Tunkiss brought three children to the parish? I reckon 'e inna married, but 'e's bin buttyin' along o' one o' them Monsells.
To act in concert with intent to defraud; to play unfairly.
Where this word comes from
Unknown. Perhaps from booty.
Resembling a heavy cart.
Shall it be a giggy thing, or a carty thing, or a butty thing?
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Middle English butte English butt English -y English butty From butt (“type of cart”) + -y.
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