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Tutty vs Butty - What's the difference?

tutty | butty |

As nouns the difference between tutty and butty

is that tutty is a powdered form of impure zinc oxide used for polishing while butty is a sandwich, usually with a hot savoury filling in a breadcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.

tutty

English

Noun

(-)
  • A powdered form of impure zinc oxide used for polishing

    • 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)