butty
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Synonyms: butt, betty, rutty, batty, busty, butte, gutty, botty, nutty, bitty, putty
Antonyms: butt, betty, rutty, batty, busty, butte, gutty, botty, nutty, bitty, putty
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Noun
- A sandwich, usually with a hot or cold savoury filling buttered in a barmcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.
- Let's have a bacon butty!
Noun
- A friend.
- A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore.
- A miner's assistant or apprentice.
- A workmate.
- A drudge; a cat's paw; someone who does the hard work; someone who is being taken advantage of by someone else.
- Ah didn't play butty, ah promise yer. Yo all on yer mek the poor lad yer butty.
- One of a pair of shoes or gloves.
- I've fund one shoe, but canna see the butty no-weer.
Verb
- To work together; to keep company with.
- I butty with Jackson.
- To cohabit; to reside with another as a couple.
- 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.
- To act in concert with intent to defraud; to play unfairly.
Adjective
- Resembling a heavy cart.
- Shall it be a giggy thing, or a carty thing, or a butty thing?
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