"butty" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more butty [comparative], most butty [superlative]
Etymology: butt (“type of cart”) + -y Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|butt|y|gloss1=type of cart}} butt (“type of cart”) + -y Head templates: {{en-adj}} butty (comparative more butty, superlative most butty)
  1. (dated, Ireland and West Country) Resembling a heavy cart. Tags: Ireland, West-Country, dated
    Sense id: en-butty-en-adj-OXr2lT~M Categories (other): Irish English, West Country English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Noun

IPA: /ˈbʊti/ (note: Northern English accents), /ˈbʌti/ (note: some other UK accents, US accents) Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-butty.wav [Southern-England] Forms: butties [plural]
Rhymes: -ʊti, -ʌti Etymology: Clipping of buttered sandwich or bun + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian Buutje (“buttered bread (sandwich)”). Etymology templates: {{clipping|en|buttered sandwich}} Clipping of buttered sandwich, {{m|en|bun}} bun, {{suf|en||-y|id2=diminutive}} + -y, {{cog|stq|Buutje|t=buttered bread (sandwich)}} Saterland Frisian Buutje (“buttered bread (sandwich)”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} butty (plural butties)
  1. (UK, chiefly Northern England, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland) A sandwich, usually with a hot savoury filling in a breadcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg. Tags: Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, Northern-England, UK Categories (topical): Sandwiches Derived forms: bacon butty, chip butty Related terms: sanger, sango, sarnie
    Sense id: en-butty-en-noun-kmQrCKe8 Disambiguation of Sandwiches: 2 38 9 5 11 10 5 11 4 4 Categories (other): Australian English, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English, Northern England English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Forms: butties [plural]
Etymology: Possibly from booty Etymology templates: {{m|en|booty}} booty Head templates: {{en-noun}} butty (plural butties)
  1. (colloquial, UK, now chiefly Wales and West Country) A friend. Tags: UK, Wales, West-Country, colloquial Synonyms (friend): chum
    Sense id: en-butty-en-noun-ZCa49Pam Categories (other): British English, Welsh English, West Country English Disambiguation of 'friend': 100 0 0 0 0
  2. (mining) A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore. Categories (topical): Mining
    Sense id: en-butty-en-noun-W929GsAn Topics: business, mining
  3. (colloquial, UK) A workmate. Tags: UK, colloquial Synonyms (workmate): colleague, partner, workmate, workfellow
    Sense id: en-butty-en-noun-rbRO0LYa Categories (other): British English Disambiguation of 'workmate': 5 3 86 5 1
  4. (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. Tags: UK, archaic, dialectal
    Sense id: en-butty-en-noun-XxkMyUbD Categories (other): British English
  5. (archaic, Shropshire) One of a pair of shoes or gloves. Tags: Shropshire, archaic
    Sense id: en-butty-en-noun-~Jc9cN9F Categories (other): Shropshire English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: fam, mate, mucker, friend Derived forms: butty-brew, butty collier, butty-gang, butty-lark, butty-man, butty-piece, butty-shop, do butty, go butty, play butty
Etymology number: 2

Verb

Forms: butties [present, singular, third-person], buttying [participle, present], buttied [participle, past], buttied [past]
Etymology: Possibly from booty Etymology templates: {{m|en|booty}} booty Head templates: {{en-verb}} butty (third-person singular simple present butties, present participle buttying, simple past and past participle buttied)
  1. (archaic, UK dialect) To work together; to keep company with. Tags: UK, archaic, dialectal
    Sense id: en-butty-en-verb-Svau1HmP Categories (other): British English
  2. (archaic, Shropshire) To cohabit; to reside with another as a couple. Tags: Shropshire, archaic Synonyms (to cohabit): cohabit, live in sin, live over the brush
    Sense id: en-butty-en-verb-ESuSE2Td Categories (other): Shropshire English Disambiguation of 'to cohabit': 6 91 3
  3. (archaic, Yorkshire) To act in concert with intent to defraud; to play unfairly. Tags: Yorkshire, archaic Synonyms (to defraud): con, trick
    Sense id: en-butty-en-verb-uvDbG8Xa Categories (other): Yorkshire English Disambiguation of 'to defraud': 10 3 87
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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        "t": "buttered bread (sandwich)"
      },
      "expansion": "Saterland Frisian Buutje (“buttered bread (sandwich)”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Clipping of buttered sandwich or bun + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian Buutje (“buttered bread (sandwich)”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "butties",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "butty (plural butties)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "sanger"
    },
    {
      "word": "sango"
    },
    {
      "word": "sarnie"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "British English",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "Irish English",
        "New Zealand English",
        "Northern England English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Let's have a bacon butty!",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sandwich, usually with a hot savoury filling in a breadcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sandwich",
          "sandwich"
        ],
        [
          "breadcake",
          "breadcake"
        ],
        [
          "chip",
          "chip"
        ],
        [
          "bacon",
          "bacon"
        ],
        [
          "sausage",
          "sausage"
        ],
        [
          "egg",
          "egg"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, chiefly Northern England, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland) A sandwich, usually with a hot savoury filling in a breadcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "Ireland",
        "New-Zealand",
        "Northern-England",
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbʊti/",
      "note": "Northern English accents"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʊti"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbʌti/",
      "note": "some other UK accents, US accents"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌti"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "butty"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "en:Sandwiches"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "butty-brew"
    },
    {
      "word": "butty collier"
    },
    {
      "word": "butty-gang"
    },
    {
      "word": "butty-lark"
    },
    {
      "word": "butty-man"
    },
    {
      "word": "butty-piece"
    },
    {
      "word": "butty-shop"
    },
    {
      "word": "do butty"
    },
    {
      "word": "go butty"
    },
    {
      "word": "play butty"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "booty"
      },
      "expansion": "booty",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Possibly from booty",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "butties",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "butty (plural butties)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English colloquialisms",
        "Welsh English",
        "West Country English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A friend."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "friend",
          "friend"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, UK, now chiefly Wales and West Country) A friend."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "Wales",
        "West-Country",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Mining"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mining",
          "mining#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "miner",
          "miner"
        ],
        [
          "contract",
          "contract"
        ],
        [
          "ton",
          "ton"
        ],
        [
          "coal",
          "coal"
        ],
        [
          "ore",
          "ore"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(mining) A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "mining"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English colloquialisms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A workmate."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "workmate",
          "workmate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, UK) A workmate."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English dialectal terms",
        "English terms with archaic senses"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Ah didn't play butty, ah promise yer. Yo all on yer mek the poor lad yer butty."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A drudge; a cat's paw; someone who does the hard work; someone who is being taken advantage of by someone else."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "drudge",
          "drudge"
        ],
        [
          "cat's paw",
          "cat's paw"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "among boys",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "archaic",
        "dialectal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "Shropshire English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I've fund one shoe, but canna see the butty no-weer."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One of a pair of shoes or gloves."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pair",
          "pair"
        ],
        [
          "shoe",
          "shoe"
        ],
        [
          "glove",
          "glove"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, Shropshire) One of a pair of shoes or gloves."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Shropshire",
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "friend",
      "word": "chum"
    },
    {
      "word": "fam"
    },
    {
      "word": "mate"
    },
    {
      "word": "mucker"
    },
    {
      "word": "friend"
    },
    {
      "sense": "workmate",
      "word": "colleague"
    },
    {
      "sense": "workmate",
      "word": "partner"
    },
    {
      "sense": "workmate",
      "word": "workmate"
    },
    {
      "sense": "workmate",
      "word": "workfellow"
    }
  ],
  "word": "butty"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "en:Sandwiches"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "booty"
      },
      "expansion": "booty",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Possibly from booty",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "butties",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "buttying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "buttied",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "buttied",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "butty (third-person singular simple present butties, present participle buttying, simple past and past participle buttied)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English dialectal terms",
        "English terms with archaic senses"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I butty with Jackson."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To work together; to keep company with."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, UK dialect) To work together; to keep company with."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "archaic",
        "dialectal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "Shropshire English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cohabit; to reside with another as a couple."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cohabit",
          "cohabit"
        ],
        [
          "reside",
          "reside"
        ],
        [
          "couple",
          "couple"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, Shropshire) To cohabit; to reside with another as a couple."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Shropshire",
        "archaic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "Yorkshire English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To act in concert with intent to defraud; to play unfairly."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "defraud",
          "defraud"
        ],
        [
          "unfairly",
          "unfairly"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, Yorkshire) To act in concert with intent to defraud; to play unfairly."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Yorkshire",
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "to cohabit",
      "word": "cohabit"
    },
    {
      "sense": "to cohabit",
      "word": "live in sin"
    },
    {
      "sense": "to cohabit",
      "word": "live over the brush"
    },
    {
      "sense": "to defraud",
      "word": "con"
    },
    {
      "sense": "to defraud",
      "word": "trick"
    }
  ],
  "word": "butty"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "en:Sandwiches"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "butt",
        "3": "y",
        "gloss1": "type of cart"
      },
      "expansion": "butt (“type of cart”) + -y",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "butt (“type of cart”) + -y",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more butty",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most butty",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "butty (comparative more butty, superlative most butty)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms",
        "Irish English",
        "West Country English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Shall it be a giggy thing, or a carty thing, or a butty thing?"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Resembling a heavy cart."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cart",
          "cart"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, Ireland and West Country) Resembling a heavy cart."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland",
        "West-Country",
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "butty"
}

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