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Butty vs Jutty - What's the difference?

butty | jutty |

As nouns the difference between butty and jutty

is that butty is (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 or butty can be (mining) a miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore while jutty is a projection in a building; also, a pier or mole; a jetty.

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)

    jutty

    English

    Noun

    (jutties)
  • A projection in a building; also, a pier or mole; a jetty
  • *{{quote-book, year=1910, author=Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, title=Tales of Old Japan, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The taking of life being displeasing to Buddha, outside many of the temples old women and children earn a livelihood by selling sparrows, small eels, carp, and tortoises, which the worshipper sets free in honour of the deity, within whose territory cocks and hens and doves, tame and unharmed, perch on every jutty , frieze, buttress, and coigne of vantage. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1828, author=Various, title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12,, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I was (says our friend) at the Naval Hospital, at Yarmouth, on the morning when Nelson, after the battle of Copenhagen (having sent the wounded before him,) arrived at the Roads, and landed on the jutty . }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1608, author=William Shakespeare, title=Macbeth, chapter=, edition=, url=
    • , passage=This guest of summer, the temple-haunting martlet, does approve by his mansionry that the heaven's breath smells wooingly here; no jutty , frieze, buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle. }} (Webster 1913)