Butty - What does it mean?
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(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.
(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)
butty
English
Etymology 1
Shortened from (buttered) (sandwich) or (bun) etc. See (-y).Noun
(butties)- Let's have a bacon butty !