Noun.
Butty is a British informal word for sandwich. The name butty comes from a shortened form of saying 'bread and butter'. It is still commonly used today.
The term butty is British slang for sandwich; it comes from the shortened version of saying “bread and butter,” and the chip butty itself dates back to 1863, a time when fish and chip shops and cafes were sprouting up all over Ireland and England for the first time.
butty2. / (ˈbʌtɪ) / nounplural -ties. English dialect (esp in mining parlance) a friend or workmate.
(N.Z. prison, also buttie) large, fat; generous.
Ringbark is a term used in New Zealand for breaking wind. Green's cites the 2003 Reed's Dictionary of New Zealand Slang, which helpfully notes that “ring is old slang for the anus.” Shoot a bunny is another New Zealand way to say fart.
Bacon butty
Sandwich a generous rasher or two of the finest locally grown bacon on a freshly baked white roll and, as is the Scottish way, smother it in butter. A generous drizzle of tomato sauce or brown sauce is the finishing touch.
<< back to foods in London. Bacon butty, bacon bap, bacon roll—whatever it may be called, this is, quite simply, a bacon sandwich. Just bacon on some variation of white bread. Sure, it's usually nice, thick, meaty back bacon.
The humble chip butty is said to date back to the mid-19th Century in Lancashire, England, and consists quite simply of potato fries (or chips, depending on where you are from), encased in a butter sandwich.
Butty– meaning sandwich. “I'll have an egg butty for me lunch please.”
In the capital, Londoners preferred chip butty, but chip roll was a favourite with over one in five people. In the East Midlands, around Leicester and Nottingham, while chip butty took the most votes, chip cob was a close second with almost three in every ten people opting for that title.
The word butty, originally referring to a buttered slice of bread, is common in some northern parts of England as a slang synonym for "sandwich," particularly to refer to certain kinds of sandwiches including the chip butty, bacon butty, or sausage butty. Sarnie is a similar colloquialism.
In England, a sandwich is called a butty! Add some. British food slang to your vocabulary that will impress. English folk and confuse your American friends.
nounBritish Informal. sandwich: Who made these delicious bacon sarnies?
A bacon sandwich (also known in parts of the United Kingdom and New Zealand as a bacon butty, bacon bap or bacon sarnie, and in parts of Ireland as a rasher sandwich) is a sandwich of cooked bacon between bread that is optionally spread with butter, and may be seasoned with ketchup or brown sauce.
1. Bacon Butty. An absolute staple in British households, and can't frankly there's no better way to start the day! There's controversy on which type of ingredient to use, but the groundwork consists of nothing more than bread, butter, sauce and bacon.
What Is a Bacon Butty? The bacon butty is a British sandwich consisting of crispy bacon, butter, and either HP Sauce (a British “brown sauce” akin to steak sauce) or ketchup, all stuffed between two slices of soft white sandwich bread.
sanger. A sandwich. Sanger is an alteration of the word sandwich. Sango appeared as a term for sandwich in the 1940s, but by the 1960s, sanger took over to describe this staple of Australian cuisine.
A Welsh term for buddy or friend from byti a person who helped in the coal mines.
That explains why people from northern England predominantly plump for 'buns' or 'barm cakes', while in the south-east (especially London and the Home Counties), all you'll really hear is 'roll'.
In British slang, a "jam sandwich" or "jam butty" is a police car with a red stripe applied to the side.
A 'piece' is generally a sandwich, regardless of filling. What the English might know as a 'chip butty' is known in Scotland as a 'chip piece' for example.
Jeelie piece: bread and jam; the most common kind of piece in Scotland, often provided as a snack between meals. By extension, a piece came to mean the sandwich lunch carried to work by the working man.
"Canadian bacon" or "Canadian-style bacon" is the term commonly used in the United States for a form of back bacon that is cured, smoked and fully cooked, trimmed into cylindrical medallions, and sliced thick. The name was created when this product was first imported from Toronto to New York City.
Durrie: Cigarette. “Hey bro, lend us a durrie!” Sweet as: Cool, awesome or no problem.