butty
/ˈbʊti/
butty noun: a sandwich, usually with a hot or cold savoury filling buttered in a barmcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.
Noun (1)
butty (plural butties)
Noun (2)
butty (plural butties)
- A friend.
- 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
- A miner's assistant or apprentice.
- A workmate.
- Near-synonyms: coworker, buddy
- 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.
- One of a pair of shoes or gloves.
- I've fund one shoe, but canna see the butty no-weer.
Verb
butty (third-person singular simple present butties, present participle buttying, simple past and past participle buttied)
- To work together; to keep company with.
- I butty with Jackson.
- To 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
- To act in concert with intent to defraud; to play unfairly.
Adjective
butty (comparative more butty, superlative most butty)
- Resembling a heavy cart.
- Shall it be a giggy thing, or a carty thing, or a butty thing?
butty meaning in Tamil
butty in Tamil
- தோழன், ஏடன்
Synonyms of butty
Forms of butty
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | butties |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | butties |
| present participle | buttying |
| past participle | buttied |
| past | buttied |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more butty |
| superlative | most butty |
Origin of butty
Clipping of buttered sandwich or bun + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian Buutje (“buttered bread (sandwich)”).
Unknown. Perhaps from booty.
From butt (“type of cart”) + -y.
Words formed from butty
- bacon butty
- chip butty
- butty-brew
- butty collier
- butty-gang
- butty-lark
- butty-man
- butty-piece
- butty-shop
- do butty
- go butty
- play butty
Words that rhyme with butty
Questions about butty
- What does butty mean?
- Butty means a sandwich, usually with a hot or cold savoury filling buttered in a barmcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.
- What is butty in Tamil?
- Butty in Tamil is தோழன், ஏடன். See Butty meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is butty?
- Butty can be a noun, a verb or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce butty?
- Butty is pronounced /ˈbʊti/.
- What is the plural of butty?
- The plural of butty is butties.
Words near butty in the dictionary
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