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Meaning of buttie

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

buttie

noun

Definitions

  1. A sandwich, usually with a hot savoury filling in a breadcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.

    Example: Let's have a bacon butty!

noun

Definitions

  1. Friend.

  2. A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore.

  3. A workmate.

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

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