butty/ˈbʊti/EtymologyClipping of buttered sandwich or bun + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian Buutje (“buttered bread (sandwich)”).nounA 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!”A friend.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, [...]”A workmate.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.”verbTo 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.adjResembling a heavy cart.“Shall it be a giggy thing, or a carty thing, or a butty thing?”