butty

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sandwich, usually with a hot or cold savoury filling buttered in a barmcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg. Ireland,New-Zealand,Northern-England,UK
    — Let's have a bacon butty!
  2. A friend. UK,Wales,West-Country,colloquial
  3. A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore.
    — But Alfred Charlesworth did not forgive the butty these public-house sayings. Consequently, although Morel was a good miner, sometimes earning as much as five pounds a week when he married, [...]
  4. A workmate. UK,colloquial
  5. A drudge; a cat's paw; someone who does the hard work; someone who is being taken advantage of by someone else. UK,archaic,dialectal
    — Ah didn't play butty, ah promise yer. Yo all on yer mek the poor lad yer butty.
  6. One of a pair of shoes or gloves. Shropshire,archaic
    — I've fund one shoe, but canna see the butty no-weer.
动词 v.
  1. To work together; to keep company with. UK,archaic,dialectal
    — I butty with Jackson.
  2. To cohabit; to reside with another as a couple. Shropshire,archaic
    — Did'n'ee 'ear as Jim Tunkiss brought three children to the parish? I reckon 'e inna married, but 'e's bin buttyin' along o' one o' them Monsells.
  3. To act in concert with intent to defraud; to play unfairly. Yorkshire,archaic
形容词 adj.
  1. Resembling a heavy cart. Ireland,West-Country,dated
    — Shall it be a giggy thing, or a carty thing, or a butty thing?

词形变化

butties plural butties plural butties present,singular,third-person buttying participle,present buttied participle,past buttied past more butty comparative most butty superlative

词汇关系

近义词
fam mate mucker
衍生词
butty-brew butty collier butty-gang butty-lark butty-man butty-piece butty-shop do butty go butty play butty

词源

词源 1
Clipping of buttered sandwich or bun + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian Buutje (“buttered bread (sandwich)”).
词源 2
Unknown. Perhaps from booty.
词源 3
Etymology tree
English butt
English -y
English butty
From butt (“type of cart”) + -y.
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