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Sandwich; towed barge
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butty
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Butty may refer to: Sandwich , a food made with two pieces of bread encompassing a filling Julius Butty , record producer The Butties , a cover band Butty boat , a type of narrowboat Welsh slang for 'Buddy' 'Mate' ' Friend ' etc.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Butty \But"ty\, n. (Mining) One who mines by contract, at so much per ton of coal or ore.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context UK chiefly Northern England NZ English) A sandwich, usually with a hot savoury filling in a breadcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg. Etymology 2 n. 1 (context mining English) A miner who works under contract, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ After a day's filming, the House Of Eliott star spends four hours serving toast and bacon butties. ▪ And please keep your butties to yourself and let the sheep eat grass as nature intended. ▪ But everybody's starving by the time ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a sandwich; "a bacon butty"
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"slice of bread and butter," 1855, northern English, from butter (n.) + -y (2).
Usage examples of butty.
He ate no breakfast but filled his pocket with whiskey butties, little balls of oatmeal steeped in whiskey, A PLACE CALLED FREEDOM 43 then stepped outside to look at the weather.
I ordered a reasonable amount of nosh, mainly butties, soup, bakewells, a battenburg for her because she likes, liked, sweet victuals.
There's a perpetual smell of cooking and the warders are snatching 'odd snacks of six inches of cheese butties and a gallon of tea.
But Alfred Charlesworth did not forgive the butty these public-house sayings.
She had seventeen shillings a week from clubs, and every Friday Barker and the other butty put by a portion of the stall's profits for Morel's wife.
All the earnings of each stall were put down to the chief butty, as contractor, and he divided the wages again, either in the public-house or in his own home.
We'll either find the police station, or we'll find some night-shift woolly suits in a patrol car sneaking a fly bacon butty at the all-night snack bar.
Between mouthfuls of surprisingly tasty chip butty, Caroline explained where they were heading.
The last night pa was boosed he was standing on the landing there bawling out for his boots to go out to Tunney's for to boose more and he looked butty and short in his shirt.
The working of the pits was thoroughly changed, all the control was taken out of the hands of the miners, the butty system was abolished.
Then Butty placed a third layer of diced potato and slivered white cabbage.