butty

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!

A friend.

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, [...]

A workmate.

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.

One of a pair of shoes or gloves.

I've fund one shoe, but canna see the butty no-weer.

To work together; to keep company with.

I butty with Jackson.

To cohabit; to reside with another as a couple.

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.

To act in concert with intent to defraud; to play unfairly.