different between cutty vs butty

English

Alternative forms

• cuttie

Etymology

cut +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?ti/

Adjective

cutty (comparative more cutty, superlative most cutty)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) Short, shortened, or small; curtailed.
2. (of audio or video) Having many cuts.
3. Sharp, cutting easily.

Derived terms

Noun

cutty (plural cutties)

1. (Scotland) A short spoon.
2. (Scotland) A short tobacco pipe; a cutty-pipe.
3. (Scotland, archaic) A wanton or unchaste woman.
4. (Scotland, archaic) A girl with a short, dumpy figure.

See also

• cutty grass

References

• John Jamieson (1825) A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement [1]

Scots

Etymology

From cut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?t?/, /?k?ti/

Adjective

cutty (comparative mair cutty, superlative maist cutty)

1. short, stumpy

Noun

cutty (plural cutties)

1. (archaic) child

English

Etymology 1

Shortened from buttered sandwich or bun +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (Northern English accents) IPA^(key): /?b?ti/
  • Rhymes: -?ti
• (some other UK accents, US accents) IPA^(key): /?b?ti/
• • Rhymes: -?ti

Noun

butty (plural butties)

1. (Britain, chiefly Northern England, New Zealand) A sandwich, usually with a hot savoury filling in a breadcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.

   Let's have a bacon butty!

See also

• sanger
• sango
• sarnie

Etymology 2

Possibly from booty

Noun

butty (plural butties)

1. (colloquial, Britain, now chiefly Wales and West Country) Friend.
2. (mining) A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore.
   • 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 1

     But Alfred Charlesworth did not forgive the butty these public-house sayings. Consequently, although Morel was a good miner, sometimes earning as much as five pounds a week when he married, [...]

3. A workmate.
4. (archaic, Britain dialect, among boys) A drudge; a cat's paw; someone who does the hard work; someone who is being taken advantage of by someone else.

   Ah didn't play butty, ah promise yer. Yo all on yer mek the poor lad yer butty.

5. (archaic, Shropshire) One of a pair of shoes or gloves.

   I've fund one shoe, but canna see the butty no-weer.

Synonyms

• (friend): chum, fam, mate, mucker, see also Thesaurus:friend
• (workmate): colleague, partner, workmate, workfellow

Derived terms

• butty-brew
• butty collier
• butty-gang
• butty-lark
• butty-man
• butty-piece
• butty-shop
• do butty
• go butty
• play butty

Verb

butty (third-person singular simple present butties, present participle buttying, simple past and past participle buttied)

1. (archaic, Britain dialect) To work together; to keep company with.

   I butty with Jackson.

2. (archaic, Shropshire) To cohabit; to reside with another as a couple.

   Did'n'ee 'ear as Jim Tunkiss brought three children to the parish? I reckon 'e inna married, but 'e's bin buttyin' along o' one o' them Monsells.

3. (archaic, Yorkshire) To act in concert with intent to defraud; to play unfairly.

Synonyms

• (to cohabit): cohabit, live in sin, live over the brush
• (to defraud): con, trick

Etymology 3

butt (“type of cart”) +? -y

Adjective

butty (comparative more butty, superlative most butty)

1. (dated, Ireland and West Country) Resembling a heavy cart.

   Shall it be a giggy thing, or a carty thing, or a butty thing?

References

Wright, Joseph (1898) The English Dialect Dictionary?^[1], volume 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 468