Butty

/ˈbʊti/ · noun

Meaning

(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..

Definitions by Sense

1. (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.
2. (colloquial, UK, now chiefly Wales and West Country) A friend.
3. (mining) A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore.
4. (colloquial, UK) A workmate.
5. (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.
6. (archaic, Shropshire) One of a pair of shoes or gloves.
7. (archaic, UK dialect) To work together; to keep company with.
8. (archaic, Shropshire) To cohabit; to reside with another as a couple.

Example Sentences

Let's have a bacon butty!

But Alfred Charlesworth did not forgive the butty these public-house sayings. Consequently, although Morel was a good miner, sometimes earning as much as five pounds a week when he married, [...]

Ah didn't play butty, ah promise yer. Yo all on yer mek the poor lad yer butty.

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

I butty with Jackson.

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.

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

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• butties
• buttying
• buttied
• more butty
• most butty

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