Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A comrade, chum, or partner.
- n. Specifically, in English coal-mining, one who takes a contract, or is a partner in a contract, for working out a certain area of coal. The butty-collier, or first man, as he is called in some coal-mining districts, employs his own holers, fillers, and boys, and has general charge of the work in his own particular “stall,”
- n. In archery, one of a pair of archers who shoot together at a target: as, when the leader has shot his first arrow his butty takes his place.
Wiktionary
- n. UK, New Zealand A sandwich, usually with a hot savoury filling in a breadcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.
- n. mining A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Mining) One who mines by contract, at so much per ton of coal or ore.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a sandwich
Etymologies
- Shortened from buttered sandwich or bun etc. See -y. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Sometimes you want something complicated like the ones in previous posts, sometimes a chip butty is the only thing you want.”
Dear Clusterflock: What’s the best sandwich you ever had? | clusterflock
“The butty was a contractor who engaged with the proprietor or lessee of the mine to deliver the coal or iron-stone at so much per ton, himself hiring the labourers, using his own horses, and supplying the tools requisite for the working of the mine.”
“Their advantage over the horse drawns, however, was their ability to tow several unpowered boats, known as butty boats.”
“TJttarcul begins at Gowa* butty, which is the boundary of his Majefty*s territorial pofleffions, and terminates in moun - tains inhabited by a tribe called Meeri Mecbmi.”
“Staffordshire miner knew by the same word the 'butty's charter' which was the symbol of his oppression, and the 'people's charter' which was the goal of his desire.”
“The "butty" is the head man over all the works, and indeed everything about the pit; the "doggy" has charge of the underground works, and looks after all the men and boys in the pit.”
“butty' (_Anglicè_, chartermaster) may have tried a bottle; but the working collier's beverage is 'pit beer.”
“A sandwich (or "butty") is the name given to a popular lunchtime food consisting of a filling (such as”
“I nearly choked on my butty as I read that we should be putting more people before the courts to ensure they receive the “tough” penalties they deserve.”
“Munching of the aforementioned butty is optimal with a background sound of Radio 3 and the mere essence of a Christmas joss stick.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘butty’.
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Coal Mining Terms
Coal mining has engendered fascinating subcultures in industry, labor, music, folklore, environment and energy. It has a rich vocabulary as well, and I've encountered some gorgeous mining words. I...
firedamp, scrip, bituminous, anthracite, company store, blackdamp, brattice, bug dust, tipple, whitedamp, float dust, fly ash and 136 more...
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some words
phatic, macerate, amanuenses, theophagy, seraglio, gloaming, geophagy, metaphone, anastrophe, neologism, tetragrammaton, bête noire and 568 more...
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words that trip off the tongue
ideology, phallocentric, parapraxis, gelid, illusion, tangible, tangibility, crux, medusa, noir, chloroform, chap and 98 more...
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Interesting Foods
smelt, sprat, caviar, sushi, papadum, garlic naan, injera, doro wat, miso, pho, edamame, tataki and 170 more...
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My favourite bevarages
It's a list of my favourite beverages. In words.
coffee, soy chai latte, red tea, orange juice, cranberry juice, vimto, black tea, red wine, butty, water, lucozade sport, pepsi and 3 more...
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entendres r us
innocent words that sound really naughty
perfervid, titillate, formicate, poppycock, flapdoodle, cockeyed, vulgate, cuirass, nincompoop, coxcomb, jackass, conurbation and 10 more...
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Filled bread in North-West England
sandwich, sarnie, butty, batch, nudger, doorstep, barm, cob, roll, bun, bin lid
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my hero
types of sandwich
sandwich, sammich, sarnie, butty, hero, hoagie, submarine, wrap, panini, melt, burger, po' boy and 15 more...
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Words I love.
All of them.
Tweets
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GHibbs A butty is also a narrow boat with no engine. They may attach several butties behind a working narrow boat. They used them in the UK, for carrying such things as coal, stones, newsprint (paper for the newspaper industry). Jan 3, 2013
madmouth an example of its Welsh meaning:
'What was that you was telling my butty of Cath Pendry yesterday?'
'What about her?'
-Powell's "Valley of Bones" May 14, 2009
chained_bear See also an excellent conversation on teeth. Jul 31, 2008
yarb In Wales, pal or mate. A term of endearment. Like buddy in the US, but I wouldn't presume to state a connection. Apr 30, 2008
trivet mmmmm... bacon...
I thought they were bacon sarnies, and still prefer the name, nyt notwithstanding. Apr 11, 2007
uselessness And yet for all that science, bacon sandwiches still taste rather like butt. Apr 11, 2007
reesetee Great find, John! My favorite line from the article:
"And so the formula evolved to establish the amount of force in the bite, expressed in newtons, and the level of noise, expressed in decibels, to make the perfect crunch."
What a world. :-) Apr 11, 2007
john "Researchers at Leeds University spent more than 1,000 hours testing 700 variants on the traditional bacon sandwich, which many Britons refer to as a bacon butty (eschewing the term sandwich, said to have been coined to honor the fourth Earl of Sandwich’s habit of eating meat between slices of bread around 1762)."
- http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/world/europe/11bacon.html Apr 11, 2007