Meaning of butty | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A sandwich, usually with a hot or cold savoury filling buttered in a barmcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.
   Ireland, New-Zealand, Northern-England, UK
2. A friend.
   UK, Wales, West-Country, colloquial
3. A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore.
4. A workmate.
   UK, colloquial
5. A drudge; a cat's paw; someone who does the hard work; someone who is being taken advantage of by someone else.
   UK, archaic, dialectal
6. One of a pair of shoes or gloves.
   Shropshire, archaic

Examples

“Let's have a bacon butty!”

“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, [...]”

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

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

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