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butties

butties is the plural of butty.

butties is the plural of buttie.

Meaning of butty

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
  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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Phrases with butties

Questions about butties

What is butties the plural of?
Butties is the plural of butty.

Words near butties in the dictionary

  1. butthooks
  2. butthurt
  3. butthurtness
  4. buttie
  5. buttied
  6. butties
  7. Buttigieg
  8. buttillaries
  9. buttillary
  10. buttin'
  11. butting

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