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butty
1or but·tie
[ buht-ee ]
butty
2or but·tie
[ buht-ee ]
noun
, British Dialect.
, plural but·ties.
- a fellow worker or friend, especially in a coal mine.
butty
1/ ˈbʌtɪ /
noun
- dialect.(esp in mining parlance) a friend or workmate
butty
2/ ˈbʌtɪ /
noun
- dialect.a sandwich
a jam butty
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Word History and Origins
Origin of butty2
First recorded in 1780–90; origin obscure
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Word History and Origins
Origin of butty1
C19: perhaps from obsolete booty sharing, from boot ², later applied to a middleman in a mine
Origin of butty2
C19: from buttered ( bread )
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Example Sentences
She tried harder as she felt on her forearm the moist warmth of the ball of Butty's thumb softly caressing it.
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It was ten o'clock, but business had not begun, neither Mr Stein nor Butty having arrived.
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Bill Thomas, Joe Brace, and a butty are buried in a cutting the fools were makin' up there a piece.
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Butty, a word used in the mining districts to denote a kind of overseer.
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Nor have I been able to discover what is referred to by the words “Charles is a butty and so good.”
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