butty

noun

1. (Ireland, New-Zealand, Northern-England, UK)A sandwich, usually with a hot or cold savoury filling buttered in a barmcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.

   “Let's have a bacon butty!”

2. (UK, Wales, West-Country, colloquial)A friend.
3. A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore.

   “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, [...]”

4. (UK, colloquial)A workmate.
5. (UK, archaic, dialectal)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.”

6. (Shropshire, archaic)One of a pair of shoes or gloves.

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

verb

1. (UK, archaic, dialectal)To work together; to keep company with.

   “I butty with Jackson.”

2. (Shropshire, archaic)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.”

3. (Yorkshire, archaic)To act in concert with intent to defraud; to play unfairly.

adj

1. (Ireland, West-Country, dated)Resembling a heavy cart.

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