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butty
noun- a sandwich UK, 1855
Also spelt “buttie”. Originally used in northern England, especially Liverpool, as a dialect elision of “buttery”; now widespread, especially as “jam butty”, “chip butty”, etc. - [C]leaner than the hands outside that grip bacon butties, steering wheels, coins in pocket for train[.] — Mark Powell, Snap, p. 5, 2001
- [S]omethin to eat. Pasty or butty or somethin. I’m Lee friggin Marvin [starving]. — Niall Griffiths, Kelly + Victor, p. 49, 2002
- a non-powered, towed canal boat that is part of a working pair UK, 1944
Also known as a “butty boat”. - — D.J. Smith, Canal Boats and Boaters, p. 116, 1973
- a friend, a workmate; also used as a form of address UK, 1859
Variants are “butt” and “buttie”. Either from mining where “butty” was “a middleman”, or from Romany booty-pal (a fellow workman) or, most probably, Warwickshire dialect butty (a fellow servant or labourer). Modern use may be influenced by BUDDY. - My auld butty John McDermott reminded me recently of a college event we had once helped to organise called “Poets Against Apartheid”. — Joseph O’Connor, The Irish Male at Home and Abroad, p. 44, 1996
- Yo, butt, hand me dat hammer. — Amy and Denise McFadden, CoalSpeak, p. 3, 1997
- PIP: right ok butt, sorry about tha’–fuck me — Patrick Jones, Everything Must Go, p. 143, 2000
- You can tell all your oppo’s butty I’m made of stronger stuff. — Jack Allen, When the Whistle Blows, p. 15, 2000
- Fuckin’ hell, butt. It’s been a while. — John Williams, Cardiff Dead, p. 9, 2000
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