buttie

Noun (1)

butty (plural butties)

1. (Ireland, New Zealand, Northern England, UK) A 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!

Noun (2)

butty (plural butties)

1. (UK, Wales, West-Country, colloquial) A friend.

   Synonyms:

   butt, buddy, chum

2. A 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. (dated) A miner's assistant or apprentice.
4. (UK, colloquial) A workmate.
   • Near-synonyms: coworker, buddy

   Synonyms:

   coworker, buddy, colleague, partner, workmate, workfellow

5. (UK, archaic, dialectal, among boys) A 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.

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