butty

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!”

Friend.

A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore.

A workmate.

(among boys) A drudge; a cat's paw; someone who does the hard work; someone who is being taken advantage of by someone else.

“Ah didn't play butty, ah promise yer. Yo all on yer mek the poor lad yer butty.”

One of a pair of shoes or gloves.

“I've fund one shoe, but canna see the butty no-weer.”

To work together; to keep company with.

“I butty with Jackson.”

To cohabit; to reside with another as a couple.

“Did'n'ee 'ear as Jim Tunkiss brought three children to the parish? I reckon 'e inna married, but 'e's bin buttyin' along o' one o' them Monsells.”

To act in concert with intent to defraud; to play unfairly.

Resembling a heavy cart.

“Shall it be a giggy thing, or a carty thing, or a butty thing?”