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- noun Plural form of
butty . - noun Plural form of
buttie .
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Examples
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So he has enough "butties" for his whole sick crew.
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A rally in Leeds meant a succulent feast: 'butties' comprising lashings of ham overhanging the sides of soft bread, washed down by a glass of milk from a stall in the market place.
Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography Bothroyd, Betty 1988
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Just as in the East Midlands the frame-work knitters worked for middlemen or master middlemen, and just as the Dudley nailers worked for petty-foggers and market-foggers, so too the Staffordshire miners worked for 'butties'.
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The disappearance of old abuses, of "butties" and "tommy-shops"; the greater care for life; the accident laws; the inspectors.
Sir George Tressady — Volume I Humphry Ward 1885
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Bagh block prints in vegetable dyes from Gwalior with the motifs taken from cave paintings, as well as traditional 'butties' and 'amris' add t another dramatic touch.
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Food includes cheese scones and sausage butties at breakfast, wholesome soups, sandwiches made using good breads from local baker, the Breadwinner, and decent homemade cakes.
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Moreover, it serves decent coffee – rich, winey espressos, magnificently creamy cappuccinos – good bacon butties at breakfast, great homemade cakes Friday's limited-edition brownies fly out of the door, and interesting panini, such as its "Pablo", filled with chorizo, olives, red pesto and cream cheese.
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Operational = butties and a flask after ‘tactical command’ discover the wheels have fallen off the mobile canteen.
Satisfied? Confident? You Will Be…… « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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Mr Uhdd is somewhere between here and Brighton, on the train, with a flask, a bale of butties and a copy of ‘Perverting the Course of Justice’.
Two Million Visits To Police Inspector Blog « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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We have this with bacon butties or sausage sandwiches.
Chef Marcus Wareing Caters to His Children Tara Loader Wilkinson 2011
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