butty

plural butties

1. IrelandNew ZealandNorthern EnglandUKA sandwich, usually with a hot or cold savoury filling buttered in a barmcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.

   Let's have a bacon butty!

plural butties

1. UKWalesWest CountrycolloquialA friend.

   Synonyms: butt, buddy, chum

2. businessA 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, [...]

   1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 1, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC

3. datedbusinessA miner's assistant or apprentice.
4. UKcolloquialA workmate.

   Near-synonyms: coworker, buddy

   Synonyms: coworker, buddy, colleague, partner, workmate, workfellow

5. UKarchaicdialectalamong boysA drudge; a cat's paw; someone who does the hard work; someone who is being taken advantage of by someone else.

   Ah didn't play butty, ah promise yer. Yo all on yer mek the poor lad yer butty.

6. ShropshirearchaicOne of a pair of shoes or gloves.

   I've fund one shoe, but canna see the butty no-weer.

present singular third person butties · participle present buttying · participle past buttied · past buttied

1. UKarchaicdialectalTo work together; to keep company with.

   I butty with Jackson.

2. ShropshirearchaicTo cohabit; to reside with another as a couple.

   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.

   Synonyms: cohabit, live in sin, live over the brush

3. YorkshirearchaicTo act in concert with intent to defraud; to play unfairly.

   Synonyms: con, trick

comparative more butty · superlative most butty

1. IrelandWest CountrydatedResembling a heavy cart.

   Shall it be a giggy thing, or a carty thing, or a butty thing?