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BUTTY
butty
(noun) a sandwich; “a bacon butty”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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
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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