butty
A sandwich, usually with a hot or cold savoury filling buttered in a barmcakeA sandwich, usually with a hot or cold savoury filling buttered in a barmcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.
» They serve the best chip butties in town.
Вони пропонують найкращі бутерброди з картоплею фрі у місті.
Значение
значений: 7(Ирландия, Новая Зеландия, Северная Англия, Британия)A sandwich, usually with a hot or cold savoury filling buttered in a barmcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.
Let's have a bacon butty!
(Британия, Wales, West Country, разговорное)A friend.
A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore.
(устаревшее)A miner's assistant or apprentice.
(Британия, разговорное)A workmate.
Near-synonyms: coworker, buddy
(Британия, архаичное, диалектное)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.
(Shropshire, архаичное)One of a pair of shoes or gloves.
I've fund one shoe, but canna see the butty no-weer.
- a sandwich
Примеры
предложений: 4They serve the best chip butties in town.
ukВони пропонують найкращі бутерброди з картоплею фрі у місті.
Tom made a mouth-watering cheese butty for Mary.
ukТом зробив Мері апетитний бутерброд із сиром.
Tom had a delicious bacon butty for breakfast this morning.
ukТом вранці з'їв смачний бутер з беконом на сніданок.
A van parked halfway up the street is selling chip butties.
deDie halbe Straße runter steht ein Lieferwagen, wo Butterbrote mit Pommes verkauft werden.
Происхождение
Clipping of buttered sandwich or bun + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian Buutje (“buttered breClipping of buttered sandwich or bun + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian Buutje (“buttered bread (sandwich)”).
Unknown. Perhaps from booty.
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