2. Noun. (plural of buttie) ¹
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Definition of Butties
1. butty [n] - See also: butty
Literary usage of Butties
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Trades' Societies and Strikes by Committee on Trades' Societies (1860)
"butties,' who require them to spend a large portion of their earnings in
public-houses iu which the butties are interested. The low condition of the miners' ..."
2. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"< butties > are sub-contractors,» he said absently; «men who contract with the pit-
... You see, the butties and the owners between them used to own the ..."
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