butty

== English == === Etymology 1 === Clipping of buttered sandwich or bun +‎ -y. Compare Saterland Frisian Buutje (“buttered bread (sandwich)”). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Northern English accents) IPA(key): /ˈbʊti/ Rhymes: -ʊti (some other UK accents, US accents) IPA(key): /ˈbʌti/ Rhymes: -ʌti ==== Noun ==== butty (plural butties) (UK, chiefly Northern England, New Zealand, Ireland) A sandwich, usually with a hot or cold savoury filling buttered in a barmcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg. ===== Derived terms ===== bacon butty chip butty ===== See also ===== sanger sango sarnie === Etymology 2 === Unknown. Perhaps from booty. ==== Noun ==== butty (plural butties) (colloquial, UK, now chiefly Wales and West Country) A friend. Synonym: butt (mining) A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore. (colloquial, UK) 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 Thesaurus:friend (workmate): colleague, partner, workmate, workfellow ===== Derived terms ===== ==== 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 === From butt (“type of cart”) +‎ -y. ==== Adjective ==== butty (comparative more butty, superlative most butty) (dated, Ireland and West Country) Resembling a heavy cart. === References === Wright, Joseph (1898), The English Dialect Dictionary‎[1], volume 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 468