Definitions for butty

butty but·ty

Spelling: [buht-ee]
IPA: /ˈbʌt i/

Butty is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in butty (bttuy).

Definitions for butty

noun

  1. a slice of bread and butter.
  2. a sandwich.
  3. a fellow worker or friend, especially in a coal mine.

Origin of butty

First recorded in 1850-55; butt(er) + -y2

Examples for butty

He thought perhaps the butty would let him go down with his Davy lamp.

butty is the word used by miners to denote helper or partner.

But Alfred Charlesworth did not forgive the butty these public-house sayings.

The miners recognized that often the butty was not to blame.

Diggs, the butty of the novel, is Banks, the coal proprietor of the Report.

"It's Bill Thomas' butty," one of the party said in surprise.

butty, a word used in the mining districts to denote a kind of overseer.

butty eyed her narrowly, his lips smiling and a little moist.

The master never goes into the mines: the “butty” very rarely.

Nor have I been able to discover what is referred to by the words “Charles is a butty and so good.”

Word Value for butty
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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