Plural of butty; British/Irish slang for sandwiches or bread rolls with fillings, especially in workplace contexts.
From butter + -y (diminutive), then pluralized. Originally implied a bread and butter sandwich, then generalized to any sandwich. Common in working-class British English.
'Butties' reveals how class and region shape vocabulary—mining and factory workers had their 'butties' while upper classes had 'sandwiches,' and both words persist in their original social contexts.
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