butty

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A sandwich, usually with a hot or cold savoury filling buttered in a barmcake. The most…

   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!
2. 2

   A friend.

3. 3

   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, [...]
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   1. 4

      A workmate.

   2. 5

      A drudge

      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.
   3. 6

      One of a pair of shoes or gloves.

      • I've fund one shoe, but canna see the butty no-weer.
   4. 7

      To work together

      To work together; to keep company with.

      • I butty with Jackson.
   5. 8

      To cohabit

      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.
   6. 9

      To act in concert with intent to defraud

      To act in concert with intent to defraud; to play unfairly.

   7. 10

      Resembling a heavy cart.

      • Shall it be a giggy thing, or a carty thing, or a butty thing?

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