butty

/ˈbʊti/ noun, verb, adjective

Forms butties buttying buttied

1. noun (UK, chiefly Northern England, New Zealand, 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!”
2. noun (colloquial, UK, now chiefly Wales and West Country) A friend.
3. noun (mining) A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore.
4. noun (mining, dated) A miner's assistant or apprentice.
5. noun (colloquial, UK) A workmate.
6. noun (archaic, UK dialect, among boys) 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.”
7. noun (archaic, Shropshire) One of a pair of shoes or gloves. “I've fund one shoe, but canna see the butty no-weer.”
8. verb (archaic, UK dialect) To work together; to keep company with. “I butty with Jackson.”
9. verb (archaic, Shropshire) 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.”
10. verb (archaic, Yorkshire) To act in concert with intent to defraud; to play unfairly.
11. adjective (dated, Ireland and West Country) Resembling a heavy cart. “Shall it be a giggy thing, or a carty thing, or a butty thing?”

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “butty”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details