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Meaning of butty
noun
- A sandwich, usually with a hot savoury filling in a breadcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg. Example: Let's have a bacon butty!
noun
- Friend.
- A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore.
- A workmate.
- (among boys) A drudge; a cat's paw; someone who does the hard work; someone who is being taken advantage of by someone else. Example: Ah didn't play butty, ah promise yer. Yo all on yer mek the poor lad yer butty.
- One of a pair of shoes or gloves. Example: I've fund one shoe, but canna see the butty no-weer.
verb
- To work together; to keep company with. Example: I butty with Jackson.
- To cohabit; to reside with another as a couple. Example: 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.
- To act in concert with intent to defraud; to play unfairly.
adjective
- Resembling a heavy cart. Example: Shall it be a giggy thing, or a carty thing, or a butty thing?
Source: Free Dictionary API.
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