A drudge; a cat's paw; someone who does the hard work; someone who is being taken advantage of by someone else.
My strong advice to @zackpolanski.bsky.social is to avoid bacon butty ambushes - I am sure Ed Miliband can tell you why...
Going through photos looking for the least ghastly. These 2 are funny, lean mean sprint machine vs herp derp I GOT BOL! We’re all only a few seconds away from eating a bacon butty wrong.
Sandwich. "Bacon butty" = bacon sandwich. Particularly Welsh and Northern English.
"Want a butty?"
“My strong advice to @zackpolanski.bsky.social is to avoid bacon butty ambushes - I am sure Ed Miliband can tell you why...”
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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I know British food has it's stereotypes but why tf does a "chip butty" sound really fucking good tho? A sandwich made of French fries?? That sounds like something I'd come up with if I was high off my gourd and I kn…
“Going through photos looking for the least ghastly. These 2 are funny, lean mean sprint machine vs herp derp I GOT BOL! We’re all only a few seconds away from eating a bacon butty wrong.”
“I know British food has it's stereotypes but why tf does a "chip butty" sound really fucking good tho? A sandwich made of French fries?? That sounds like something I'd come up with if I was high off my gourd and I know it would SMACK 🔥”
A drudge; a cat's paw; someone who does the hard work; someone who is being taken advantage of by someone else.
To cohabit; to reside with another as a couple.
“Photograph: Nadir Kinani/The Guardian [View image in fullscreen](https://www.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/jun/12/chip-butties-chips-bread-popularity-trend-australia#img-1) Carb-on-carb wonder: the chip butty served at Glory Us cafe in Melbourne, where the 10mm-thick fries are stacked ‘like a Tetris tower’.”
To act in concert with intent to defraud; to play unfairly.
Resembling a heavy cart.
One of a pair of shoes or gloves.
A sandwich, usually with a hot or cold savoury filling buttered in a barmcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.
"butty" means a sandwich, usually with a hot or cold savoury filling buttered in a barmcake. It is one of many casual words teens pick up from friends, social media, music or sport, and on its own it carries no particular warning. If you hear your teen use it, it is fair to ask what they mean by it in their friend group, since meanings drift quickly. Asking out of curiosity rather than alarm tends to keep the conversation open and useful.
To work together; to keep company with.
“If an [internal link](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Butty&namespace=0) incorrectly led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.”
“03. [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_butty#cite_ref-3)[Hayward, Tim](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hayward "Tim Hayward") (28 August 2015). ["How to Make the Ultimate Chip Butty"](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinkadvice/11825662/Chip-butty-recipe.html). _[The Telegraph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph "The Daily Telegraph")_.”
"butty" is informal English meaning a sandwich, usually with a hot or cold savoury filling buttered in a barmcake. It is used widely across English varieties. A more formal or neutral equivalent would be something like "a sandwich" expressed in standard vocabulary. A common mistake is to assume "butty" can replace its standard equivalent in every register; keep it for spoken or casual situations and use the formal form in writing. If you are a B2 or C1 learner, it is useful to recognise this word when you hear or read it, but think carefully about whether the situation really calls for it before using it yourself.