Etymology

butty

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Today it means: A sandwich, usually with a hot or cold savoury filling buttered in a barmcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg. Full definition →

English butt ← Middle English butte
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butty · noun1

Clipping of buttered sandwich or bun + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian Buutje (“buttered bread (sandwich)”).

butty · noun, verb2

Unknown. Perhaps from booty.

butty · adjective3

  1. Middle Englishbutte
  2. Englishbutt
  3. English todaybutty

From butt (“type of cart”) + -y.

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