butty1
/ˈbʌti
/(also buttie)
noun (plural butties) informal, chiefly Northern English
A filled or open sandwich: a bacon butty...
- You wouldn't make a chip buttie with these chips but they are so handy to have in the freezer.
- It's no different to having a chip buttie or a crisp sandwich.
- But it's here, over a cappuccino and a bacon buttie, that I meet Gianluca Bisol, whose family have been making prosecco for five generations.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from butter + -y2.
Rhymes
butty2
/ˈbʌti/noun (plural butties) British
1 informal (Among miners) a friend or workmate.I was given into the care of a mentor or, as the miners say, a butty....
- On arrival, my butty unlocked the tools and gave me my shovel, sledge and mandrill.
- My shivering horror attracted my butty's attention and then he laughed.
2 historical A middleman negotiating between miners and the mine owner.Originally coal was mined on a 'butty' system where a butty was a middleman between a gang of half a dozen workers and the proprietors, the miners being paid a fixed rate per ton....
- A Charter Master, aka contractor, bargain man, bargain taker, butty, butty man, contracted for the getting of coal in a specified section at an agreed rate per ton.
- A Butty in the mining districts is a middleman: a Doggy is his manager.
3 (also butty boat) An unpowered freight barge intended to be towed.On the right is the butty boat with its large wooden rudder and canine crew, on the left is the motor....
- It's a meadow, on a butty boat, towed by a tugboat, through the canals from Bath to London.
- Unlike many butties Malus has never been converted, and used a motor boat but has kept her butty boat framework and structure throughout her lifetime.
Origin
Late 18th century: probably from booty1 in the phrase play booty 'join in sharing plunder'.