Sekirov Dictionary

butty

/ˈbʌti/

noun 7
verb 3
adjective 1
forms 5

noun7

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(UK, Ireland) 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!
(UK, informal) A friend.
(UK, informal) A workmate.
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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
(old-fashioned) A miner's assistant or apprentice.
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(dialect, no longer used) 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.
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(no longer used) One of a pair of shoes or gloves.
- I've fund one shoe, but canna see the butty no-weer.

verb3

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(dialect, no longer used) To work together; to keep company with.
- I butty with Jackson.
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(no longer used) 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.
(no longer used) To act in concert with intent to defraud; to play unfairly.

adjective1

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(Ireland, old-fashioned) Resembling a heavy cart.
- Shall it be a giggy thing, or a carty thing, or a butty thing?

forms

buttied · buttying · butties · more butty · most butty

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