different between buttock vs butty

English

Etymology

From Middle English buttok, probably from Old English buttuc (“end; end piece”; also, “short piece of land”). Attested with its current anatomical meaning since 1300. A diminutive form of what is presumably the Old English precursor of butt +? -ock (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?t?k/, /?b?t?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?t?k/, [?b???k]

Noun

buttock (plural buttocks)

1. (usually in the plural) Each of the two large fleshy halves of the posterior part of the body between the base of the back, the perineum and the top of the legs.

   Synonyms: (crude) asscheek, cheek; see also Thesaurus:buttocks

2. (nautical) The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern.
   • 1925, Adventure, Volume 54

     There came a blast of freezing wind that made Skell shrug himself against the oaken post on which the ship's buttock rested.

Usage notes

The plural form is usually used in the singular sense for a single person's posterior, often called butt.It is rarer to refer to only a single buttock, which is then usually specified as left or right.

Derived terms

• quakebuttock

Translations

See also

• callipygian/callipygous
• dasypygal

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “buttock”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

English

Etymology 1

Shortened from buttered sandwich or bun +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (Northern English accents) IPA^(key): /?b?ti/
  • Rhymes: -?ti
• (some other UK accents, US accents) IPA^(key): /?b?ti/
• • Rhymes: -?ti

Noun

butty (plural butties)

1. (Britain, chiefly Northern England, New Zealand) A sandwich, usually with a hot savoury filling in a breadcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.

   Let's have a bacon butty!

See also

• sanger
• sango
• sarnie

Etymology 2

Possibly from booty

Noun

butty (plural butties)

1. (colloquial, Britain, now chiefly Wales and West Country) Friend.
2. (mining) A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore.
   • 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 1

     But Alfred Charlesworth did not forgive the butty these public-house sayings. Consequently, although Morel was a good miner, sometimes earning as much as five pounds a week when he married, [...]

3. A workmate.
4. (archaic, Britain dialect, among boys) A drudge; a cat's paw; someone who does the hard work; someone who is being taken advantage of by someone else.

   Ah didn't play butty, ah promise yer. Yo all on yer mek the poor lad yer butty.

5. (archaic, Shropshire) One of a pair of shoes or gloves.

   I've fund one shoe, but canna see the butty no-weer.

Synonyms

• (friend): chum, fam, mate, mucker, see also Thesaurus:friend
• (workmate): colleague, partner, workmate, workfellow

Derived terms

• butty-brew
• butty collier
• butty-gang
• butty-lark
• butty-man
• butty-piece
• butty-shop
• do butty
• go butty
• play butty

Verb

butty (third-person singular simple present butties, present participle buttying, simple past and past participle buttied)

1. (archaic, Britain dialect) To work together; to keep company with.

   I butty with Jackson.

2. (archaic, Shropshire) To cohabit; to reside with another as a couple.

   Did'n'ee 'ear as Jim Tunkiss brought three children to the parish? I reckon 'e inna married, but 'e's bin buttyin' along o' one o' them Monsells.

3. (archaic, Yorkshire) To act in concert with intent to defraud; to play unfairly.

Synonyms

• (to cohabit): cohabit, live in sin, live over the brush
• (to defraud): con, trick

Etymology 3

butt (“type of cart”) +? -y

Adjective

butty (comparative more butty, superlative most butty)

1. (dated, Ireland and West Country) Resembling a heavy cart.

   Shall it be a giggy thing, or a carty thing, or a butty thing?

References

Wright, Joseph (1898) The English Dialect Dictionary?^[1], volume 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 468