BUTTY

butty

(noun) a sandwich; “a bacon butty”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

butty (plural butties)

(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.

Etymology 2

Noun

butty (plural butties)

(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.

Synonyms

• (friend): chum, fam, mate, mucker, see also friend

• (workmate): colleague, partner, workmate, workfellow

Verb

butty (third-person singular simple present butties, present participle buttying, simple past and past participle buttied)

(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.

Synonyms

• (to cohabit): cohabit, live in sin, live over the brush

• (to defraud): con, trick

Etymology 3

Adjective

butty (comparative more butty, superlative most butty)

(dated, Ireland, &, West Country) Resembling a heavy cart.

Source: Wiktionary

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But"ty, n. (Mining)

Definition: One who mines by contract, at so much per ton of coal or ore.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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