UK, term for a sandwich

Get us a sausage and egg butty from the shop, kidder

UK English term for a sandwich, particularly said from Birmingham upwards. The London equivalent would be "sarnie". Probably comes from the word butter.

"What've you got for your dinner?" "Cheese butties."

Not to be confused with a sandwich, a butty is formed by folding a single slice of buttered bread around whatever takes your fancy and is readily available (i.e. requiring no further preparation). In its purest form a true butty is filled with ingredients, in any combination, from a meal already underway. For example, if you are eating a "Full English" breakfast, you may butter a slice of bread and pile on any one or more of the items on your plate (e.g. egg, sausage, beans, black pudding, bacon, mushrooms). No food is excluded as a potential ingredient of a butty provided it is ready to eat at the time. The all-time favourite though must surely be chips (as known in the UK, french fries elsewhere). Gorging on a butty is always a more joyful activity than eating a sandwich as it embodies the pleasure of mild gluttony, rather than being a technical exercise in meeting nutritional needs. The contents are selected in a spontaneous fashion and usually involve a certain excess, preferably challenging the structural integrity of the bread and hand control / oral capacity of the consumer. Enjoy! :-D

Parent: "What did you have for lunch?" Child: "Just a jam butty."

South Wales slang for a male friend or acquaintance. See also butt