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butty 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
  1. a sandwich; "a bacon butty"
  2. A sandwich is a food item, often consisting of two or more slices of bread with one or more fillings between them,Abelson, Jenn. . The Boston Globe, November 10, 2006. Accessed 27 May 2009. or one slice of bread with a topping or toppings, commonly called an open sandwich. ...
  3. (The Butties) The Butties are a Beatles cover band that formed at Syracuse University in 1983, best known for their Christmas album "12 Greatest Carols. ...
  4. A sandwich, usually with a hot savoury filling in a breadcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg
  5. (Butties) these were contractors who drove the roadways in the mine. They agreed to a certain sum of money out of which wages and materials had to come. Usually an unpopular system with the men, who often believed the monies were not divided fairly.
  6. negotiated mining contracts and supplied the labor
  7. Non-powered boat of a working pair, on the narrow canals. Originally a horse boat but later towed by a motorboat.
  8. [], larder ; a term applied in Peel to a Douglas cook boy in a fishing-vessel, or to Douglas people in general.
  9. a (cargo) narrow-boat that has no engine, pulled by one that has (a Motor).
  10. (hist.) 1. a middleman negotiating between a mine-owner and the miners. 2. a barge or other craft towed by another.
  11. n. A butty is something served in a chippie inside a roll (or, I'm told, just a sandwich). To the best of my knowledge the most common application is a chip butty but you can also buy bacon or fish butties without seeming strange. ...
  12. supplied and paid his own workers to mine an agreed amount of coal for a fee.
  13. n. 1. Sandwich, as in jam butties (jelly sandwiches) or chip butties (French fry sandwiches) both of which are Liverpudlian (i.e. from the city of Liverpool) in origin.
  14. An unpowered narrowboat towed by a powered boat (the “motor”) together making up a pair. Usually seen nowadays as a hotel pair. Note a chip butty is something completely different.
  15. As in a chip butty pronounced as "chup boody" in some parts. A favourite sandwich, particularly up north, made up of two buttered pieces of white bread and filled with "chips" (fried potato as in "fries" in the US. ...