Sarnie vs. Butty

A sandwich; a submarine sandwich, hoagie.

Example: ‘Hello my flower, shall I fix up a cheese sarnie for you?’;

The Sandwich tern.

A sandwich, usually with a hot savoury filling in a breadcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.

Example: ‘Let's have a bacon butty!’;

Friend.

(mining) A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore.

A workmate.

A drudge; a cat's paw; someone who does the hard work; someone who is being taken advantage of by someone else.

Example: ‘Ah didn't play butty, ah promise yer. Yo all on yer mek the poor lad yer butty.’;

One of a pair of shoes or gloves.

Example: ‘I've fund one shoe, but canna see the butty no-weer.’;

To work together; to keep company with.

Example: ‘I butty with Jackson.’;

To cohabit; to reside with another as a couple.

Example: ‘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.’;

To act in concert with intent to defraud; to play unfairly.

Resembling a heavy cart.

Example: ‘Shall it be a giggy thing, or a carty thing, or a butty thing?’;

One who mines by contract, at so much per ton of coal or ore.

a sandwich;

Example: ‘a bacon butty’;