buttyn.¹

Brit.

/ˈbʌti/, U.S.

/ˈbədi/

Forms: 1700s– butty, 1800s– buttie.

Origin: Of unknown origin.

Etymology: Origin unknown.It has been suggested that the word is < Romani būtī work (in a collocation with a noun meaning ‘companion’), but this is unlikely on phonological grounds, and no established collocation of this sort is recorded in Romani.

British.

1. A companion, workmate, or friend. Also as a form of address.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > [noun] > fellow-worker

fellowOE

labour-fellow1526

work fellow1526

yokefellow1526

fellow worker1534

yokemate1567

co-brother1590

workmate1763

butty1791

side-partner1845

deskmate1850

co-labourer1859

bobber1860

with-worker1884

the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > friend

friendOE

wineOE

fellowa1225

friendmana1250

lovera1275

amic1330

gossipc1390

mikea1400

ally1406

amykec1450

favourer1483

favourite1590

palc1770

butty1791

amigo1813

amico1820

compadre1834

pally1863

tillicum1869

nigger1884

buddy1895

paxc1900

mutual1901

righto1908

segotia1917

bud1924

palsy1930

palsy-walsy1932

buddy-buddy1943

winger1943

mucker1947

main man1956

goombah1968

gabba1970

money1982

the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > friend > close associate or companion

farrowa700

fellowa1225

playferec1225

companiona1325

matec1380

gossea1549

comrade1591

comrado1598

netop1643

butty1791

left bower1829

sidekick1893

side-kicker1894

cobber1895

bredda1969

bredren1980

1791 A. Macaulay Hist. & Antiq. Claybrook 129 Butty, a fellow servant or labourer.

1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. Geoffry Hamlyn II. xiv. 282 ‘Butty,’ says I, ‘who are these chaps round here on the lay?’

1875 Lanc. Gloss. 63 Butty, a confederate.

1897 Knowledge 1 July 173/1 Bless his four paws! he's a dear old butty; aye, an' a goodly.

1937 L. Jones Cwmardy vii. 117 Take a tip from a old hand, butty, never take no bloody nonsense from them.

1977 T. Savory Stonecrop xi. 48 Mick they always called me, even me butties at the school-house.

2012 Irish Times (Nexis) 9 June (Mag.) 7 Bill O'Herlihy was an old butty of mine.

2. A middleman who leases a mine from its owners and acts as employer or working foreman to a company of colliers contracted to mine coal or ore for a stipulated value per ton. Now historical.Recorded earliest in butty collier at Compounds 1.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > coal-miner > owner or manager of coal-mine

coal owner1595

coalmaster1639

butty1828

keeler1860

1828 Times 22 Feb. Worrell, a butty collier.

1832 Times 9 Jan. A butty has only five or six men under him.

1845 B. Disraeli Sybil I. 12 ‘There ayn't no black tyrant on this earth like a butty, surely,’ said a collier.

1886 Law Times 80 166/2 The butties who had a contract with Earl Granville to raise and get the ironstone from the mine at 4s. 10d. per ton.

a1930 D. H. Lawrence Phoenix (1936) 778 There th' butties'll be, havin' to pay seven shillin' a day to men as 'appen isn't worth a penny more than five.

1973 R. W. Wainwright in P. E. Razzell & R. W. Wainwright Victorian Working Class p. xxiv We see the butties and gaffers ‘tommying’ men whose jobs depended upon a passive compliance with this form of exploitation.

2002 F. D. Roberts Social Conscience of Early Victorians iii. 70 The most scandalous exposures came from the mines, five- and six-year-olds opening and shutting trapdoors,..and butties who beat the children.

3. An unpowered freight barge towed by a primary barge; a butty boat (butty boat n. at Compounds 2).

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > barge > other types of barge

coal barge1720

budgerow1727

water1727

brick barge1738

tent-barge1796

water barge1798

passage-barge1804

steam barge1812

schooner barge1819

tongkang1834

bumbarge1839

Tom Pudding1880

grain-barge1902

butty1923

support barge1967

reel barge1972

1923 Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 663/2 I overhauled two barges, the foremost with its little steam-engine towing the second or ‘butty’.

1948 D. Severn Cruise of Maiden Castle ix. 90 The channel leading to the lock was barred them, a narrow boat and butty filling the entrance.

2010 Canal Boats Apr. 23/1 In double locks we take the pair into the lock and then disconnect the butty, bow-hauling her in beside the motor.

Compounds

C1. General attributive in sense 2, as butty collier, butty system, etc.

ΚΠ

1828 [see sense 2].

1845 Penny Cycl. Suppl. I. 380/2 The miners entertain a bitter dislike to the ‘butty’ system.

1896 Econ. Jrnl. 6 364 It paid the Butty master to be always ‘speeding up’, because he received the product, not of his own extra exertion alone, but of that of all his gang.

1930 Scotsman 14 Aug. 9/7 The butty man was a sort of boss without the status of one.

1947 Econ. Hist. Rev. 17 44 The ‘butty’ element in the piece-master system disappeared and it was replaced for the fairer ‘gang piece work’ system.

1991 R. Reiner Chief Constables iii. viii. 184 My uncle was a miner. My father had to go as a butty boy till he broke away from it and bettered himself considerably.

2016 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 7 Nov. 18 Joseph's father was a ‘butty miner,’ which meant that although he was under contract to Holywood Colliery, he was paid not by the hour, but based on how many tons of coal he could dig up.

C2.

butty boat n. an unpowered freight barge towed by a primary barge.

ΚΠ

1858 Morning Chron. 25 Sept. 3/3 We left the barge in a body along with the cheerful giant, and two of the butty-boat crew.

1909 ‘Q’ True Tilda ix. 116 With two horses hauling at the first [barge], and the second (which Sam called a butty-boat) towed astern.

1946 Archit. Rev. 100 161/1 They [sc. barges] go in pairs, a diesel-engined motor boat and a butty boat towed behind... The cabin of the butty is down into the bottom of the boat.

2017 Daventry Express (Nexis) 19 June Timothy will steer President—the last surviving steam narrowboat—into the marina, towing its butty boat Kildare, steered by Prunella.

butty gang n. a company of workers contracted to an industrial enterprise who divide the proceeds of their collective labour equally among themselves.

ΚΠ

1843 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 6 22/1 The superintendent sets out the works, and sub-lets them to the various gangers and butty gangs.

1881 G. Smith Lett. & Ess. 164 He favoured the butty-gang system, that of letting work to a gang of a dozen men, who divide the pay, allowing something extra to the head of the gang.

1921 Amer. Econ. Rev. 11 247 This butty-gang system as it was operated under Brassey was, of course, not the same as the system that is known by that name and still practiced in some British coal mines.

2005 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 8 Oct. (Books section) 4 Itinerant workers living alongside the track, they worked in ‘butty gangs’, removing vast quantities of earth using just pick, shovel and, occasionally, some dynamite.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

buttyn.²

Brit.

/ˈbʌti/, U.S.

/ˈbədi/

Forms: 1800s– butty, 1900s– buttie.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: butter n.¹, -y suffix⁶.

Etymology: < butt- (in butter n.¹) + -y suffix⁶.

Chiefly English regional (northern).

Originally: a slice of bread spread with butter and sometimes another topping. Now usually: a sandwich. Frequently with modifying word denoting the filling or topping, as bacon butty, chip butty, jam butty, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > bread with spread or filling > [noun] > bread with butter, jam, or other spread

bread and butter1533

butterham1713

butter toast1757

tartine1804

butty1827

punk and plaster1891

thunder and lightning1905

cinnamon toast1927

jam-butty1927

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > bread with spread or filling > [noun] > sandwich

sandwich1762

butty1827

round1901

dodger1919

wad1919

sanger1943

sarnie1961

sarmie1970

sambo1972

sammie1978

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > bread with spread or filling > [noun] > sandwich > open sandwich

butty1827

smørrebrød1902

smørbrød1933

open sandwich1946

1827 Lancaster Gaz. 14 Apr. Ellen asked her for ‘a butty,’ meaning some bread and butter.

1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South II. xi. 142 He's always mithering me for ‘daddy’ and ‘butty’; and I ha' no butties to give him, and daddy's away.

1934 J. L. Hodson Harvest in North ii. i. 256 There was always a ‘butty’ to be had at The Rookery and a drink of milk or ginger-beer.

1954 Manch. Guardian 23 Mar. 6/3 A sugar-butty provided by an old cook is one of the happier recollections of my youth.

1963 K. Dodd Let. in Daily Mail 11 June 8/1 Butty: a very thick slice of bread—a real doorstep.

1979 Daily Mail 23 Mar. 3/3 My downfall was chip butties, crisp butties, every kind of sandwich.

2007 S. MacBride Broken Skin iii. 23 You can get the teas in while I have a fag. And get some bacon butties too—I'm starving.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	butty
释义	buttyn.¹ Brit. /ˈbʌti/, U.S. /ˈbədi/ Forms: 1700s– butty, 1800s– buttie. Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown.It has been suggested that the word is < Romani būtī work (in a collocation with a noun meaning ‘companion’), but this is unlikely on phonological grounds, and no established collocation of this sort is recorded in Romani. British. 1. A companion, workmate, or friend. Also as a form of address. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > [noun] > fellow-worker fellowOE labour-fellow1526 work fellow1526 yokefellow1526 fellow worker1534 yokemate1567 co-brother1590 workmate1763 butty1791 side-partner1845 deskmate1850 co-labourer1859 bobber1860 with-worker1884 the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > friend friendOE wineOE fellowa1225 friendmana1250 lovera1275 amic1330 gossipc1390 mikea1400 ally1406 amykec1450 favourer1483 favourite1590 palc1770 butty1791 amigo1813 amico1820 compadre1834 pally1863 tillicum1869 nigger1884 buddy1895 paxc1900 mutual1901 righto1908 segotia1917 bud1924 palsy1930 palsy-walsy1932 buddy-buddy1943 winger1943 mucker1947 main man1956 goombah1968 gabba1970 money1982 the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > friend > close associate or companion farrowa700 fellowa1225 playferec1225 companiona1325 matec1380 gossea1549 comrade1591 comrado1598 netop1643 butty1791 left bower1829 sidekick1893 side-kicker1894 cobber1895 bredda1969 bredren1980 1791 A. Macaulay Hist. & Antiq. Claybrook 129 Butty, a fellow servant or labourer. 1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. Geoffry Hamlyn II. xiv. 282 ‘Butty,’ says I, ‘who are these chaps round here on the lay?’ 1875 Lanc. Gloss. 63 Butty, a confederate. 1897 Knowledge 1 July 173/1 Bless his four paws! he's a dear old butty; aye, an' a goodly. 1937 L. Jones Cwmardy vii. 117 Take a tip from a old hand, butty, never take no bloody nonsense from them. 1977 T. Savory Stonecrop xi. 48 Mick they always called me, even me butties at the school-house. 2012 Irish Times (Nexis) 9 June (Mag.) 7 Bill O'Herlihy was an old butty of mine. 2. A middleman who leases a mine from its owners and acts as employer or working foreman to a company of colliers contracted to mine coal or ore for a stipulated value per ton. Now historical.Recorded earliest in butty collier at Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > coal-miner > owner or manager of coal-mine coal owner1595 coalmaster1639 butty1828 keeler1860 1828 Times 22 Feb. Worrell, a butty collier. 1832 Times 9 Jan. A butty has only five or six men under him. 1845 B. Disraeli Sybil I. 12 ‘There ayn't no black tyrant on this earth like a butty, surely,’ said a collier. 1886 Law Times 80 166/2 The butties who had a contract with Earl Granville to raise and get the ironstone from the mine at 4s. 10d. per ton. a1930 D. H. Lawrence Phoenix (1936) 778 There th' butties'll be, havin' to pay seven shillin' a day to men as 'appen isn't worth a penny more than five. 1973 R. W. Wainwright in P. E. Razzell & R. W. Wainwright Victorian Working Class p. xxiv We see the butties and gaffers ‘tommying’ men whose jobs depended upon a passive compliance with this form of exploitation. 2002 F. D. Roberts Social Conscience of Early Victorians iii. 70 The most scandalous exposures came from the mines, five- and six-year-olds opening and shutting trapdoors,..and butties who beat the children. 3. An unpowered freight barge towed by a primary barge; a butty boat (butty boat n. at Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > barge > other types of barge coal barge1720 budgerow1727 water1727 brick barge1738 tent-barge1796 water barge1798 passage-barge1804 steam barge1812 schooner barge1819 tongkang1834 bumbarge1839 Tom Pudding1880 grain-barge1902 butty1923 support barge1967 reel barge1972 1923 Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 663/2 I overhauled two barges, the foremost with its little steam-engine towing the second or ‘butty’. 1948 D. Severn Cruise of Maiden Castle ix. 90 The channel leading to the lock was barred them, a narrow boat and butty filling the entrance. 2010 Canal Boats Apr. 23/1 In double locks we take the pair into the lock and then disconnect the butty, bow-hauling her in beside the motor. Compounds C1. General attributive in sense 2, as butty collier, butty system, etc. ΚΠ 1828 [see sense 2]. 1845 Penny Cycl. Suppl. I. 380/2 The miners entertain a bitter dislike to the ‘butty’ system. 1896 Econ. Jrnl. 6 364 It paid the Butty master to be always ‘speeding up’, because he received the product, not of his own extra exertion alone, but of that of all his gang. 1930 Scotsman 14 Aug. 9/7 The butty man was a sort of boss without the status of one. 1947 Econ. Hist. Rev. 17 44 The ‘butty’ element in the piece-master system disappeared and it was replaced for the fairer ‘gang piece work’ system. 1991 R. Reiner Chief Constables iii. viii. 184 My uncle was a miner. My father had to go as a butty boy till he broke away from it and bettered himself considerably. 2016 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 7 Nov. 18 Joseph's father was a ‘butty miner,’ which meant that although he was under contract to Holywood Colliery, he was paid not by the hour, but based on how many tons of coal he could dig up. C2. butty boat n. an unpowered freight barge towed by a primary barge. ΚΠ 1858 Morning Chron. 25 Sept. 3/3 We left the barge in a body along with the cheerful giant, and two of the butty-boat crew. 1909 ‘Q’ True Tilda ix. 116 With two horses hauling at the first [barge], and the second (which Sam called a butty-boat) towed astern. 1946 Archit. Rev. 100 161/1 They [sc. barges] go in pairs, a diesel-engined motor boat and a butty boat towed behind... The cabin of the butty is down into the bottom of the boat. 2017 Daventry Express (Nexis) 19 June Timothy will steer President—the last surviving steam narrowboat—into the marina, towing its butty boat Kildare, steered by Prunella. butty gang n. a company of workers contracted to an industrial enterprise who divide the proceeds of their collective labour equally among themselves. ΚΠ 1843 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 6 22/1 The superintendent sets out the works, and sub-lets them to the various gangers and butty gangs. 1881 G. Smith Lett. & Ess. 164 He favoured the butty-gang system, that of letting work to a gang of a dozen men, who divide the pay, allowing something extra to the head of the gang. 1921 Amer. Econ. Rev. 11 247 This butty-gang system as it was operated under Brassey was, of course, not the same as the system that is known by that name and still practiced in some British coal mines. 2005 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 8 Oct. (Books section) 4 Itinerant workers living alongside the track, they worked in ‘butty gangs’, removing vast quantities of earth using just pick, shovel and, occasionally, some dynamite. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). buttyn.² Brit. /ˈbʌti/, U.S. /ˈbədi/ Forms: 1800s– butty, 1900s– buttie. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: butter n.¹, -y suffix⁶. Etymology: < butt- (in butter n.¹) + -y suffix⁶. Chiefly English regional (northern). Originally: a slice of bread spread with butter and sometimes another topping. Now usually: a sandwich. Frequently with modifying word denoting the filling or topping, as bacon butty, chip butty, jam butty, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > bread with spread or filling > [noun] > bread with butter, jam, or other spread bread and butter1533 butterham1713 butter toast1757 tartine1804 butty1827 punk and plaster1891 thunder and lightning1905 cinnamon toast1927 jam-butty1927 the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > bread with spread or filling > [noun] > sandwich sandwich1762 butty1827 round1901 dodger1919 wad1919 sanger1943 sarnie1961 sarmie1970 sambo1972 sammie1978 the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > bread with spread or filling > [noun] > sandwich > open sandwich butty1827 smørrebrød1902 smørbrød1933 open sandwich1946 1827 Lancaster Gaz. 14 Apr. Ellen asked her for ‘a butty,’ meaning some bread and butter. 1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South II. xi. 142 He's always mithering me for ‘daddy’ and ‘butty’; and I ha' no butties to give him, and daddy's away. 1934 J. L. Hodson Harvest in North ii. i. 256 There was always a ‘butty’ to be had at The Rookery and a drink of milk or ginger-beer. 1954 Manch. Guardian 23 Mar. 6/3 A sugar-butty provided by an old cook is one of the happier recollections of my youth. 1963 K. Dodd Let. in Daily Mail 11 June 8/1 Butty: a very thick slice of bread—a real doorstep. 1979 Daily Mail 23 Mar. 3/3 My downfall was chip butties, crisp butties, every kind of sandwich. 2007 S. MacBride Broken Skin iii. 23 You can get the teas in while I have a fag. And get some bacon butties too—I'm starving. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.¹1791n.²1827
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