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Cutty vs Butty - What's the difference?

cutty | butty |

As nouns the difference between cutty and butty

is that cutty is a short spoon while butty is a sandwich, usually with a hot savoury filling in a breadcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.

As an adjective cutty

is short, shortened, or small; curtailed.

cutty

English

Alternative forms

* cuttie

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (Scotland, Northern England) Short, shortened, or small; curtailed.

    • Derived terms

    * cutty-brown * cutty-gun * cutty-hare * cuttymum * cutty-stoup * cutty-quean

    Noun

    (cutties)
  • (Scotland) A short spoon.
  • (Scotland) A short tobacco pipe.
    • (Ramsay)
  • (Scotland, archaic) A wanton or unchaste woman.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)

    References

    * John Jamieson (1825) A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement [http://books.google.com/books?id=UGAJAAAAQAAJ&dq=cutty+cuttie&lr=&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0] ----

    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)