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butty
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[ˈbʌti], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a filled or open sandwich
(e.g: a bacon butty)
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Origin
:
mid 19th century: from butter + -y
[ˈbʌti], (Noun)
Definitions:
- (among miners) a friend or workmate
(e.g: his butties did not come to work that morning)
- a middleman negotiating between miners and the mine owner
(e.g: the work of everyone depended on the whim of the butty)
- an unpowered freight barge intended to be towed
(e.g: they towed the butty to a quieter part of the wharf)
Phrases:
Origin
:
late 18th century: probably from booty in the phrase play booty ‘join in sharing plunder’
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