Butty

Quick meaning: Butty is a noun meaning (colloquial, UK, now chiefly Wales and West Country) A friend.

Meaning

(colloquial, UK, now chiefly Wales and West Country) A friend.

More Meanings

1. (mining) A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore.
2. (colloquial, UK) A workmate.
3. (UK, chiefly Northern England, New Zealand, Ireland) A sandwich, usually with a hot or cold savoury filling buttered in a barmcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.
4. (archaic, Shropshire) One of a pair of shoes or gloves.
5. (archaic, UK dialect) To work together; to keep company with.
6. (archaic, Shropshire) To cohabit; to reside with another as a couple.
7. (archaic, UK dialect, among boys) A drudge; a cat's paw; someone who does the hard work; someone who is being taken advantage of by someone else.

Example Sentences

I butty with Jackson.

Let's have a bacon butty!

I've fund one shoe, but canna see the butty no-weer.

Shall it be a giggy thing, or a carty thing, or a butty thing?

Word Forms

• butties
• buttying
• buttied

Synonyms for butty

Depending on context, synonyms include chum, fam, mate, mucker, colleague, partner.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include buttie, toastie, soldier, butterbrot, biscuit, butter-ham.

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