butty
1 Americannoun
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butties
plural
noun
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of butty1
First recorded in 1850–55; butt(er) + -y 2
Origin of butty2
First recorded in 1780–90; origin obscure
Example Sentences
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So let’s raise a glass, or a chip butty, in fond farewell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025
He said when he told his wife she replied: "We'll go and have a bacon butty with that."
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2024
And "in some regions, it's called a butty."
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2022
He said: "Every morning, I'd come down, and they'd have a bacon butty waiting for me."
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2021
She had seventeen shillings a week from clubs, and every Friday Barker and the other butty put by a portion of the stall's profits for Morel's wife.
From Sons and Lovers by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
BBC Radio Wales would broadcast the festival live and a cannon would even fire bacon butties into the campsite in the mornings, or so he claimed.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2025
Outside, a burger van sent by an energy company is providing bacon butties to those on Greystone Road.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2015
Catering manager at the time, Carla Frediani, gave the butties the most ringing of endorsements: "If you cook bacon, the smell just gets to everyone. I'm a vegetarian but even I get tempted."
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2015
Perhaps a sequence of calamitous encounters with bacon butties and other food that is hard to consume with elegance?
From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2014
Ay, Jack Simpson; the mate I ha' worked with ever since we were butties together.
From Facing Death The Hero of the Vaughan Pit. A Tale of the Coal Mines by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
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