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# butty

noun (a butty, butties)

«butty» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (UK informal, especially northern England) A butty is a sandwich, often with a hot filling: «a chip butty», «a bacon butty». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/butty/#m1)
2. (UK dialect, Wales) A butty can mean a friend or workmate. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/butty/#m2)

### In the lessons

In everyday British talk a «chip butty» is chips in buttered bread and a «bacon butty» is a bacon sandwich. It tells the reader the speaker is probably from the north of England. Phrases: chip butty, bacon butty, jam butty.

### Examples

- Grandad made me a bacon butty for breakfast. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/butty/#x1)
- A chip butty is chips in a buttered roll. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/butty/#x2)
- Do you want a jam butty for your lunch? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/butty/#x3)
- We had butties on the beach in Blackpool. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/butty/#x4)
- He's my old butty from the mine. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/butty/#x5)
- Pass us a butty, I'm starving. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/butty/#x6)

### Note

Informal and British. Comes from «butter». Plural «butties». Other UK words for a sandwich: sarnie, sarny; Australia: sanga.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «butty» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/butty/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«butty» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/butty.html) on Mova free.