A drudge; a cat's paw; someone who does the hard work; someone who is being taken advantage of by someone else.
My strong advice to @zackpolanski.bsky.social is to avoid bacon butty ambushes - I am sure Ed Miliband can tell you why...
Going through photos looking for the least ghastly. These 2 are funny, lean mean sprint machine vs herp derp I GOT BOL! We’re all only a few seconds away from eating a bacon butty wrong.
Sandwich. "Bacon butty" = bacon sandwich. Particularly Welsh and Northern English.
"Want a butty?"
“My strong advice to @zackpolanski.bsky.social is to avoid bacon butty ambushes - I am sure Ed Miliband can tell you why...”
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(UK) A sandwich filled with bacon.
A bacon butty is one of Britain's most beloved comfort foods — a simple sandwich made with rashers of cooked bacon stuffed between two slices of soft white bread (or a bread roll), usually with a generous smear of butter and a splash of brown sauce or ketchup. It's the classic hangover cure, the staple of greasy spoon cafes, the Saturday morning ritual for millions. No dish better captures the unpretentious, no-nonsense soul of British food culture.
A butty god is someone who has elevated the humble British sandwich to an art form — the person in any workplace, greasy spoon, or Saturday morning kitchen who simply cannot be beaten when it comes to constructing the perfect butty. The bread-to-filling ratio is immaculate, the butter application is generous but not reckless, and the bacon is always done exactly right. 'God' here borrows from gaming and internet culture's god-tier ranking, applied with deadpan sincerity to one of Britain's most beloved comfort foods. Earnest compliment in working-class UK contexts.
I know British food has it's stereotypes but why tf does a "chip butty" sound really fucking good tho? A sandwich made of French fries?? That sounds like something I'd come up with if I was high off my gourd and I kn…
“Going through photos looking for the least ghastly. These 2 are funny, lean mean sprint machine vs herp derp I GOT BOL! We’re all only a few seconds away from eating a bacon butty wrong.”
“I know British food has it's stereotypes but why tf does a "chip butty" sound really fucking good tho? A sandwich made of French fries?? That sounds like something I'd come up with if I was high off my gourd and I know it would SMACK 🔥”
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A drudge; a cat's paw; someone who does the hard work; someone who is being taken advantage of by someone else.
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To act in concert with intent to defraud; to play unfairly.
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To cohabit; to reside with another as a couple.
“Photograph: Nadir Kinani/The Guardian [View image in fullscreen](https://www.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/jun/12/chip-butties-chips-bread-popularity-trend-australia#img-1) Carb-on-carb wonder: the chip butty served at Glory Us cafe in Melbourne, where the 10mm-thick fries are stacked ‘like a Tetris tower’.”
Resembling a heavy cart.
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To work together; to keep company with.
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A sandwich, usually with a hot or cold savoury filling buttered in a barmcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.
"butty" means a sandwich, usually with a hot or cold savoury filling buttered in a barmcake. It is one of many casual words teens pick up from friends, social media, music or sport, and on its own it carries no particular warning. If you hear your teen use it, it is fair to ask what they mean by it in their friend group, since meanings drift quickly. Asking out of curiosity rather than alarm tends to keep the conversation open and useful.
One of a pair of shoes or gloves.
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A butty fail is a sandwich attempt gone catastrophically wrong in one of several specific and deeply annoying ways — the bread is too thick, the filling slides out the moment you pick it up, the whole thing disintegrates into your lap, or worst of all, someone substituted the correct filling for something that had no business being between those slices. The stakes feel disproportionately high given the simplicity of the task, which is part of what makes a butty fail so demoralizing. In British food culture, where the butty is sacred comfort, getting it wrong is a minor but genuine tragedy.
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“03. [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_butty#cite_ref-3)[Hayward, Tim](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hayward "Tim Hayward") (28 August 2015). ["How to Make the Ultimate Chip Butty"](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinkadvice/11825662/Chip-butty-recipe.html). _[The Telegraph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph "The Daily Telegraph")_.”
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"butty" is informal English meaning a sandwich, usually with a hot or cold savoury filling buttered in a barmcake. It is used widely across English varieties. A more formal or neutral equivalent would be something like "a sandwich" expressed in standard vocabulary. A common mistake is to assume "butty" can replace its standard equivalent in every register; keep it for spoken or casual situations and use the formal form in writing. If you are a B2 or C1 learner, it is useful to recognise this word when you hear or read it, but think carefully about whether the situation really calls for it before using it yourself.
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