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Butty
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- 1 Resembling a heavy cart. Ireland, West-Country, dated
"Shall it be a giggy thing, or a carty thing, or a butty thing?"
- 1 A sandwich, usually with a hot or cold savoury filling buttered in a barmcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg. Ireland, New-Zealand, Northern-England, UK
"Let's have a bacon butty!"
- 2 A friend. UK, Wales, West-Country, colloquial
- 3 a sandwich wordnet
- 4 A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore.
"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, [...]"
- 5 A workmate. UK, colloquial
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- 6 A drudge; a cat's paw; someone who does the hard work; someone who is being taken advantage of by someone else. UK, archaic, dialectal
"Ah didn't play butty, ah promise yer. Yo all on yer mek the poor lad yer butty."
- 7 One of a pair of shoes or gloves. Shropshire, archaic
"I've fund one shoe, but canna see the butty no-weer."
- 1 To work together; to keep company with. UK, archaic, dialectal
"I butty with Jackson."
- 2 To cohabit; to reside with another as a couple. Shropshire, archaic
"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 To act in concert with intent to defraud; to play unfairly. Yorkshire, archaic
Etymology
Clipping of buttered sandwich or bun + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian Buutje (“buttered bread (sandwich)”).
Unknown. Perhaps from booty.
Unknown. Perhaps from booty.
From butt (“type of cart”) + -y.
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