but tyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Northern English accents) IPA: /ˈbʊti/
  • 韻: -ʊti
• (some other 英国発音 accents, 米国発音 accents) IPA: /ˈbʌti/
• • 韻: -ʌti

名詞

butty (plural butties)

1. (UK, chiefly Northern England, New Zealand, Ireland) A sandwich, usually with a hot or cold savoury filling buttered in a barmcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.

   Let's have a bacon butty!

派生語

• bacon butty
• chip butty

参考

• sanger
• sango
• sarnie

語源 2

Unknown. Perhaps from booty.

名詞

butty (plural butties)

1. (colloquial, UK, now chiefly Wales and West Country) A friend.

   Synonym: butt

2. (mining) A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore.
   • 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 1, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

     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. (colloquial, UK) A workmate.
4. (archaic, UK 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.

同意語

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

派生語

動詞

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

1. (archaic, UK 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.

同意語

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

語源 3

From butt (“type of cart”) +‎ -y.

形容詞

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?

参照

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