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Buttock vs Butty - What's the difference?

buttock | butty |

As nouns the difference between buttock and butty

is that buttock is each of the two large fleshy halves of the posterior part of the body between the base of the back, the perineum and the top of the legs while butty is a sandwich, usually with a hot savoury filling in a breadcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.

buttock

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (usually, in the plural) Each of the two large fleshy halves of the posterior part of the body between the base of the back, the perineum and the top of the legs.
  • The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern.
    • (the Maritime Dictionary)

    Usage notes

    The plural form is usually used in the singular sense for a single person's posterior, often called butt . It is rarer to refer to only a single buttock, which is then usually specified as left or right.

    Synonyms

    * asscheek (crude) * butt-cheek * arsecheek (crude) * bum-cheek * cheek * ham * mound * (plurale tantum) hurdies (p) * See also

    See also

    * callipygian/callipygous * dasypygal

    References

    * * English words suffixed with -ock

    butty

    English

    Etymology 1

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

    Noun

    (butties)
  • (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 !
    See also
    * sanger * sango * sarnie

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (butties)
  • (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, [...]
  • A workmate.
    • (Webster 1913)