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BUT-ee/ˈbʌti/

A butty is a sandwich in informal northern UK English. A chip butty is chips in buttered bread — a well-known café order. Sarnie is another informal word, more southern or general. Sandwich is the standard word. Countable.

Meaning

A sandwich (UK informal, especially northern; a chip butty is chips in bread).

Examples

• “He had a chip butty on the way home from the football.”
• “Do you want a jam butty for the train?”
• “The café’s bacon butty is better than the toast.”

Good to know

a butty (UK informal, often northern). Close: a sarnie. Neutral: a sandwich. Extra: a chip butty.

Near in meaning

sandwich, sarnie

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