butty
/ˈbʊti/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.99 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A sandwich, usually with a hot or cold savoury filling buttered in a barmcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.
New Zealand usage; British usage
noun
A drudge; a cat's paw; someone who does the hard work; someone who is being taken advantage of by someone else.
British usage; Archaic
Example Sentences
- "Let's have a bacon butty!"
- "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, [...]"
- "Near-synonyms: coworker, buddy"
- "Ah didn't play butty, ah promise yer. Yo all on yer mek the poor lad yer butty."
- "I've fund one shoe, but canna see the butty no-weer."
- "I butty with Jackson."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: -y
Usage
- New Zealand usage
- British usage
- Colloquial
- Dated
- Archaic
Inflected Forms
butties (plural)
butties (present, singular)
buttying (participle, present)
buttied (participle, past)
buttied (past)
more butty (comparative)
most butty (superlative)