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butty

butty

1 9.1
A sandwich with a filling like bacon, sausage or chips
  • noun
  • /ˈbʌti/
  • UK
translation icon : sándwich
  • - Not by the hair ofmy butty-butt-butt!

Examples

  • You want a cheese butty, Paul?

    A Hard Day's Night (1964)

  • We never expected that Gloria Grahame in our kitchen, necking a bacon butty, asking for tommy sauce.

    Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017)

  • Please may I get a chip butty and and a large sausage plain please.

  • If I affect your life in no other way, then allow me this honor, the humble chip butty.

    Wild Child (2008)

  • We're still gonna be your best butties.

    Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)

  • And where are the bacon butties -I love those girls.

    Spice World (1997)

  • Didn't even get a jam butty, did you?

    A Hard Day's Night (1964)

  • So many parks, ticket options, fast-pass tips, and trying to work out how to eat without paying an arm and a leg for a butty.

    Blog text (8)

  • Would you like a bacon butty for lunch?

  • I ordered a chip butty with extra sauce at the café.

Synonyms

bacon sanger
vsbutty
  • Australian
9.9

A sandwich with cooked bacon often eaten for breakfast

is the British term rather than an Australian informal name
cheese butty
vsbutty
  • UK
7.4

A sandwich with cheese between two slices of buttered bread, common in Britain

is the British name mainly used for meat or chip fillings

Compounds

cheese butty
  • UK
7.4

A sandwich with cheese between two slices of buttered bread, common in Britain

How Filling

meal
∞ 1.0
butty
  • UK
1 9.1
sandwich
800 1.0
snack
471 1.0

Surface Forms

butty singular
butties plural

Morphology

butty = butter (semi-transparent) = butter + y

Originally a diminutive/colloquial form related to 'butter' (buttered bread), but the meaning has broadened to mean a sandwich in general, so the connection is not fully predictable for learners.

Etymology

Butty is a British word for a sandwich. One helpful way to remember it is to think of butter or 'bread-and-butter' — it likely began as a name for a simple buttered sandwich, which is why a 'chip butty' is a sandwich filled with chips.