Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word BUTTY
BUTTY
Definitions of BUTTY
- (mining) A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore.
- (archaic, UKdialect, among boys) A drudge; a cat's paw; someone who does the hard work; someone who is being taken advantage of by someone else.
- (archaic, Shropshire) One of a pair of shoes or gloves.
- (archaic, UKdialect) To work together; to keep company with.
- (archaic, Shropshire) To cohabit; to reside with another as a couple.
- (archaic, Yorkshire) To act in concert with intent to defraud; to play unfairly.
- (dated, Ireland, &, West Country) Resembling a heavy cart.
- (UK, chiefly, Northern England, NZ, Ireland) A sandwich, usually with a hot or cold savoury filling buttered in a barmcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.
- (colloquial, UK, now chieflyWales and West Country) A friend.
- (colloquial, UK) A workmate.
Number of letters
5
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using BUTTY in a Sentence
- He was to live in Knotty Ash all his life, dying in the house in which he was born, and often referred to the area—as well as its mythical "jam butty mines" and "black pudding plantations"—in his act.
- "The Greasy Chip Butty Song" is a football chant sung by the supporters of Sheffield United football club to the tune of "Annie's Song", glorifying life in Sheffield, in chief the chip butty but also nightlife, beer and tobacco products.
- As competition intensified, horse-drawn single narrowboats were replaced by steam and later diesel powered boats towing an unpowered butty, and many of the boatmen's families abandoned their shore homes for a life afloat, to help with boat handling and to reduce accommodation costs – the birth of the "boatman's cabin" with bright white lace, gleaming brass and gaily-painted metalware.
- A chip butty, chip barm, chip bap, chip bun, or hot chip sandwich (in Australia), is a sandwich filled with chips.
- A bacon sandwich (also known in parts of the United Kingdom and New Zealand as a bacon butty, bacon bap, bacon cob or bacon sarnie) is a sandwich of cooked bacon.
- Dolenz and Juste hosted parties attended by musicians and celebrities; Ringo Starr of the Beatles once dubbed Juste "Earth Mother" for her having made him a chip butty and eggs when he arrived after a "rip-roaring all-nighter".
- Crisp sandwiches are also called piece and crisps (in Scottish English), chippy sandwich (in Australian English), chip sandwich, crispwich, crisp sarnie, crisp butty, or crip sambo.
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