butty

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US /ˈbʌti/ UK /ˈbʌti/ See IPA manual

noun

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noun
a sandwich (British, dialectal)

He grabbed a bacon butty on the way to work.

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1 noun · a sandwich (british,... sandwichsarniesarny

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Related forms butter bread

Etymology

British dialectal, from butter + -y, originally denoting a slice of buttered bread; first recorded in northern English usage.

butere Old English

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# butty

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** ˈbʌti
**IPA (UK):** ˈbʌti

## Meanings
1. a sandwich (British, dialectal)

## Examples
- He grabbed a bacon butty on the way to work.

## Synonyms
- sandwich
- sarnie
- sarny

## Related Forms
- butter
- bread

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: butere

## Etymology
British dialectal, from butter + -y, originally denoting a slice of buttered bread; first recorded in northern English usage.

## AI Etymology
Butty is British dialectal, from butter + -y, originally denoting a slice of buttered bread; first recorded in northern English usage. The historical trail runs through Old English butere. Morphologically, the surface form is analyzable into prefixes, suffixes, compounds, or participial endings that carry part of the history. The later sense follows a semantic development already present in the word's history. In modern use it means a sandwich (British, dialectal). Related forms include butter, bread.

## Topics
- Abstract Ideas
- Word Formation & Derivatives
- Register & Style

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