butty

Plural: butties

Noun

• A fellow workman, companion, or chum.
• a sandwich
  • "a bacon butty"
• A sandwich, usually with a hot or cold savoury filling buttered in a barmcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.
• A friend.
• A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore.
• A workmate.
• A drudge; a cat's paw; someone who does the hard work; someone who is being taken advantage of by someone else.
• One of a pair of shoes or gloves.

Verb

• To work together; to keep company with.
• To cohabit; to reside with another as a couple.
• To act in concert with intent to defraud; to play unfairly.

Adj

• Resembling a heavy cart.

Examples

• Ah didn't play butty, ah promise yer. Yo all on yer mek the poor lad yer butty.
• 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.
• Every Words With Friends player needs a BUTTY to commiserate with after a tough loss.
• I butty with Jackson.
• I've fund one shoe, but canna see the butty no-weer.
• Let's have a bacon butty!
• Shall it be a giggy thing, or a carty thing, or a butty thing?

Synonyms

chum, cohabit, colleague, con, fam, friend, live in sin, live over the brush, mate, mucker, partner, trick, workfellow, workmate

Related Words

sanger, sango, sarnie

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