butty

British slang sandwich

Butty is British dialect, chiefly from the Midlands and North of England, for a sandwich or filled bread roll: a bacon butty, a chip butty.

The word likely comes from buttered bread.

In Welsh mining communities, a butty was also a work partner or mate who shared labor and wages—a meaning now largely historical.

sandwich

bacon

Cured smoked pork

chipSmall broken-off piece
sausageEncased ground meat
eggReproductive cell in shell

cheese · ham · bread · filling · sarnie · bap · roll · toastie · ketchup · tomato

British

chippy

Prone to hostility

sarnieInformal British sandwich
bapSoft British roll
teaSteeped leaf beverage

pub · mate · lunch · breakfast · teatime · grub · nosh · workman · snap · dinner

mining

pit

Fruit's hard seed

minerOne who excavates ore
coalfaceActive mining surface
seamJoined fabric edge

shaft · haulier · collier · pickaxe · headlamp · underground · gallery · tunnel · hewers · wagon

Opposites

SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP (companion sense)

buttyenemy

Hostile opposing party

foe · antagonist · adversary · stranger · rival

regional/dialectal register

Filling between bread slices

sub · hoagie · hero · grinder · po'boy

workplace dynamics

buttyrival

One who competes against

competitor · antagonist · opponent · boss · supervisor

Phrases

peanut butterPaste from ground gourds
belly buttonCord attachment remnant
bread and butterPrimary source of income
butter knifeBlunt spreading utensil
big red buttonConspicuous emergency activator
snooze buttonAlarm delay mechanism

Family

button, butter, buttery, buttoned, buttered, buttering, buttoning, butties, bread and butter

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