buttie BrE

This is the famous chip buttie, pride of the English midlands.

She snatched up the fallen buttie and ripped a huge bite out of it.

Logan dropped his half-eaten buttie back onto his plate.

I'd like to try something different, like waking up late and having a bacon buttie and a cup of tea...

In Hull it may be consumed in a breadcake; this is known as the pattie buttie.

But there were some girls - and there was Buttie Navers and Cleeve.

He was on his second mug of milky tea and halfway through a bacon buttie when DI Steel finally slouched into the canteen.

DI Steel popped the last of Logan's buttie in her gob and chewed unhappily in silence.

'Come on, Fatal Accident Enquiry's not till half four, I'll stand you a bacon buttie and a cup of tea.'

I don't transform into a carnivorous beast stuffing the first bacon buttie that passes my radar, it's just that I have to be a little bit pragmatic about the food and its veggie credentials.

I remember going to a fruit and flower market in Leeds very early one morning during a tour and one of the staff was going to bring a cup of tea and a bacon buttie to Mrs Thatcher.

I think it might be a perfect chip buttie, ie thick white sliced bread spread with butter, hot salty thick cut chips, and tomato ketchup, eaten quickly so that the melting process has just started with the first few bites.

Mastering the lightning quick surface was the key as the committed - or simply deranged - practised until 2am most nights or formed an orderly queue at 6am to bribe the security man with a coffee and bacon buttie for a dawn session.