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butty
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)
- (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)
- (colloquial, Britain, now chiefly Wales and West Country) Friend.
- (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, [...]
- 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 1
- A workmate.
- (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.
- (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)
- (archaic, Britain dialect) To work together; to keep company with.
- I butty with Jackson.
- (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.
- (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)
- (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
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dutty
English
Etymology
According to one source, from the Twi Akan word dutty (“ground”). Probably reinforced by the English terms dirt, dirty.
Noun
dutty
- (Jamaican) The ground.
- 1966, Miss Lou, Dutty Tough
- Rain a fall but dutty tough
- 1966, Miss Lou, Dutty Tough
Adjective
dutty
- (Britain, slang) dirty
- (Jamaican) dirty
References
Jamaican Creole
Etymology
From English dirty and, possibly, from Akan d?te.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?t?/
- Hyphenation: du?tty
Adjective
dutty
- dirty, messy, soiled, unclean, nasty
Noun
dutty
- ground, earth, land, dirt (soil)
Verb
dutty
- dirty, make dirty, soil, spoil
Further reading
- Richard Allsopp (main editor), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, 2003 (reprint by The University of the West Indies Press, originally 1996 by Oxford University Press), ISBN 9789766401450 (originally ISBN-10: 976-640-145-4), page 209
- dutty – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary
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