butty
IPA: bˈʌti
noun
- (UK, chiefly Northern England, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland) A sandwich, usually with a hot savoury filling in a breadcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.
- (colloquial, UK, now chiefly Wales and West Country) Friend.
- (mining) A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore.
- A workmate.
- (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.
- (archaic, Shropshire) One of a pair of shoes or gloves.
verb
- (archaic, UK dialect) To work together; to keep company with.
- (archaic, Shropshire) To cohabit; to reside with another as a couple.
- (archaic, Yorkshire) To act in concert with intent to defraud; to play unfairly.
adjective
- (dated, Ireland and West Country) Resembling a heavy cart.
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Examples of "butty" in Sentences
- Narrowboats with a butty stern .
- RTS games are fun but the eat at my butty.
- I'm Australian and I've heard of a chip butty.
- I'm a iltshire lad and its most definately a butty.
- Butty is a very old english word for friend or companion.
- He is deadly accurate with protractors and can make a mean bacon butty.
- It is rare for a common sandwich in the UK to be called a Butty however.
- Also references to 'dry bacon butty' as being known as a common name etc...
- A sandwich (or "butty") is the name given to a popular lunchtime food consisting of a filling (such as
- 'butty' (_Anglicè_, chartermaster) may have tried a bottle; but the working collier's beverage is 'pit beer.'
- Their advantage over the horse drawns, however, was their ability to tow several unpowered boats, known as butty boats.
- Sometimes you want something complicated like the ones in previous posts, sometimes a chip butty is the only thing you want.
- Munching of the aforementioned butty is optimal with a background sound of Radio 3 and the mere essence of a Christmas joss stick.
- I nearly choked on my butty as I read that we should be putting more people before the courts to ensure they receive the “tough” penalties they deserve.
- Staffordshire miner knew by the same word the 'butty's charter' which was the symbol of his oppression, and the 'people's charter' which was the goal of his desire.
- TJttarcul begins at Gowa* butty, which is the boundary of his Majefty*s territorial pofleffions, and terminates in moun - tains inhabited by a tribe called Meeri Mecbmi.
- The "butty" is the head man over all the works, and indeed everything about the pit; the "doggy" has charge of the underground works, and looks after all the men and boys in the pit.
- The butty was a contractor who engaged with the proprietor or lessee of the mine to deliver the coal or iron-stone at so much per ton, himself hiring the labourers, using his own horses, and supplying the tools requisite for the working of the mine.