English
butty
Pronunciation
  • (Northern English accents) IPA: /ˈbʊti/
  • (some other UK accents, US accents) IPA: /ˈbʌti/
Noun

butty (plural butties)

  1. (UK, chiefly, Northern England, NZ) A sandwich, usually with a hot savoury filling in a breadcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.
    Let's have a bacon butty!
Noun

butty (plural butties)

  1. (colloquial, UK, now chiefly Wales and West Country) Friend.
  2. (mining) A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore.
    • 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 1
      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, [...]
  3. A workmate.
  4. (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.
    Ah didn't play butty, ah promise yer. Yo all on yer mek the poor lad yer butty.
  5. (archaic, Shropshire) One of a pair of shoes or gloves.
    I've fund one shoe, but canna see the butty no-weer.
Synonyms Verb

butty

  1. (archaic, UK dialect) To work together; to keep company with.
    I butty with Jackson.
  2. (archaic, Shropshire) 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.
  3. (archaic, Yorkshire) To act in concert with intent to defraud; to play unfairly.
Synonyms Adjective

butty

  1. (dated, Ireland, &, West Country) Resembling a heavy cart.
    Shall it be a giggy thing, or a carty thing, or a butty thing?


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