Butty

Pronunciation

• Northern English accents IPA: /ˈbÊŠti/
• Rhymes: -ÊŠti
• some other UK accents IPA: /ˈbÊŒti/
• Rhymes: -ÊŒti

Shortened from buttered sandwich or bun etc. See -y.

Full definition of butty

Noun

1. (UK, chiefly Northern England, NZ) A sandwich, usually with a hot savoury filling in a breadcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.Let's have a bacon butty!

Noun

1. (mining) A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore.
• 1913, DH Lawrence, ,But Alfred Charlesworth did not forgive the butty these public-house sayings. Consequently, although Morel was a good miner, sometimes earning as much as five pounds a week when he married, ...
2. A workmate.