butty
nounRegionalNorth of England
A British English slang term. Browse all British slang.
What it means
A sandwich, particularly a filled roll. A chip butty — chips in buttered bread — is the canonical example.
In use
A bacon butty and a brew, please.
You've never had a chip butty?
Where it comes from
From butter — bread with butter on it. The North of England and Wales say butty, other regions say sarnie or barm, and the national argument over what to call a bread roll is genuinely unresolved.
Other forms
- Similar terms:
- sarnie, sandwich