[ˈbʌti], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a filled or open sandwich
(e.g: a bacon butty)


Phrases:

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’