butty
(noun) a sandwich; “a bacon butty”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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.
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.
• (friend): chum, fam, mate, mucker, see also friend
• (workmate): colleague, partner, workmate, workfellow
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.
• (to cohabit): cohabit, live in sin, live over the brush
• (to defraud): con, trick
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
27 April 2024
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
