butty

Everyday

1. (UK informal, especially northern England) A butty is a sandwich, often with a hot filling: «a chip butty», «a bacon butty». tree →
2. (UK dialect, Wales) A butty can mean a friend or workmate. tree →

In the lessons

In everyday British talk a «chip butty» is chips in buttered bread and a «bacon butty» is a bacon sandwich. It tells the reader the speaker is probably from the north of England. Phrases: chip butty, bacon butty, jam butty.

Examples

• Grandad made me a bacon butty for breakfast. tree →
• A chip butty is chips in a buttered roll. tree →
• Do you want a jam butty for your lunch? tree →
• We had butties on the beach in Blackpool. tree →
• He's my old butty from the mine. tree →
• Pass us a butty, I'm starving. tree →

Note

Informal and British. Comes from «butter». Plural «butties». Other UK words for a sandwich: sarnie, sarny; Australia: sanga.