• sammich(slang)
• Sandwich(obsolete)

Named after its supposed inventor, theEarl of Sandwich (seeSandwich).

• (UK)IPA^(key):/ˈsæn(d)wɪd͡ʒ/,/ˈsæn(d)wɪt͡ʃ/,[ˈsæmwɪd͡ʒ],[ˈsæ̃wɪd͡ʒ]
• (US)IPA^(key):/ˈsænˌ(d)wɪt͡ʃ/,[ˈsæmˌwɪt͡ʃ],[ˈsæmˌɪt͡ʃ],[ˈsæ̃ˌwɪt͡ʃ]
  • (Maryland)IPA^(key):/ˈsæn(d)wɪd͡ʒ/
• (Canada)IPA^(key):/ˈsænˌ(d)wɪt͡ʃ/

• Audio(US):

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• Homophone:SDCH

sandwich (pluralsandwichesor(rare)sandwichs)

1. Adish orfoodstuff where at least one piece, but typically two or morepieces, ofbreadserves as thewrapper orcontainer of someotherfood.
   • 2002, Serena Carrington,Avalon, Writers Club Press, page92:

     He laid out a linen tablecloth and a fewsandwichs from some bread, dressing, and beef.

   • 2012, Allie McNeil,Watergate Summer, AuthorHouse, page160:

     And the only "care" I could offer was eggsandwichs and Lilly's unfaltering attention.

   • 2020 January 21, Brontë Aurell,The Little Book of Scandi Living, White Lion Publishing,→ISBN, page51:

     The most famous place in Copenhagen, Ida Davidsen, has a menu of 190 different kinds of opensandwich.

2. (by extension) Anycombinationformed bylayering onetype ofmaterial between twolayers of someothermaterial.
3. (UK) Alayer cake orsandwich cake.
   • 2016, Alysa Levene,Cake: A Slice of History:

     […] our local agricultural fair in Warwickshire even has a category for Victoriasandwiches baked by male bakers.

4. (archaic) Asandwichman(one who wears asandwich board).
   • Pall Mall Gazette, quoted in2004, Chris Jenks,Urban Culture, page 129:

     We have, and not so very long ago, seen women employed as 'sandwiches'.

• In Ireland and the UK,sandwich often presupposessliced bread, in which case similar foods made with other types of bread are called "filledroll", "filledbap", etc.^[1]

• SeeThesaurus:sandwich

• open-faced sandwich(uncovered);BLT(bacon with lettuce & tomato);banh mi(Vietnamese, usually on baguette);patty melt(ground beef on bread);hamburger,burger(ground beef, usually on bun);-burger(other meats on a bun);hot dog(tubular, highly disputed)

sandwich (third-person singular simple presentsandwiches,present participlesandwiching,simple past and past participlesandwiched)

1. (transitive) To place (an item) physically between two other, usually flat, items.
   • 1951 January, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Essex and Hertfordshire”, inRailway Magazine, page46:

     We saw a few Gresley Moguls on goods, as a limited amount of freight traffic wassandwiched in even on this busy day.

   • 1959 May, William Jones, John Hodge, “Resorts for Railfans - 28: Cardiff, Part Two”, inTrains Illustrated, page265:

     An oddity of the auto-train services, incidentally, was the occasional "doubling", usually for football excursions, when the load was increased to four coaches with the enginesandwiched between.

   • 2021 June 14, Scott Mullen, “Scotland 0-2 Czech Republic”, inBBC Sport‎^[1]:

     But as the game looked destined for a stalemate at half-time, the hammer blow arrived. A corner was just about cleared, only for the Scots to switch off.
     Vladimir Coufal overlapped with space and time on his side, his delivery being met bySchick, who steered his header home whilesandwiched betweenLiam Cooper andGrant Hanley.

   • 2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, inRAIL, number969, page57:

     One can't escape the huge nuclear facility at Sellafield (supplier of much of the line's remaining freight traffic), or miss the wild shingle beaches with exposed and precarious bungalowssandwiched between the railway and the shore at Braystones.

2. (transitive,figuratively) To put or set between two other events in time.
   • 1988, Cynthia Solomon,Computer Environments for Children, page94:

     Street BASIC is becoming the language taught in junior high; it issandwiched between Logo, which is taught in elementary school, and Pascal, which is taught in high school.

   • 2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, inBBC Sport‎^[2]:

     Dirk Kuytsandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley.

3. (transitive,sex) Todouble penetrate.
   • 2017, Madhuri Pavamani,Juma:

     Theysandwiched her, the footballer at her back, his dick tucked into the perfect seam of her ass as he fingered her pussy while the shorter, leaner, covered-in-tattoos Monsieur Artiste kissed her and pinched her nipples

4. (transitive,informal) To feedsandwiches to.
   • 1866,Emma Jane Worboise, “The St. Beetha’s Temperance Society”, inSt. Beetha’s; or, The Heiress of Arne, London: “Christian World” Office, […];Jackson, Walford, and Hodder, […],→OCLC,page213:

     But one or two evil-disposed characters muttered they might be sure the lady had her own turn to serve, and they might be sure they wasn't "teaed and muffined andsandwiched for nothing!"

   • 1897 January 7, “City’s Veteran Firemen. New Year Reception. The Rooms of the Association Filled with Guests. Reminiscences, Reunion, and Refreshments,”, inThe Pittsfield Sun, volume97, number26, Pittsfield, Mass.,page 7:

     The association of veteran firemen, which has a membership of 200, kept open house for New Year callers, and all comers were bountifullysandwiched and coffeed.

   • 1917 November 11, Dumas Malone, “The Ring and the Red Triangle: How the Men Who Wear the New Insignia Go With the Army”, inThe Macon Daily Telegraph, Macon, Ga., first section, article section “The Ever-Ready Hut”,page four:

     Here at Camp Wheeler we “coffeed” and “sandwiched” the drafted men when they came from Camp Gordon several weeks ago, and the men from Camp Pike more recently.

   • 1929, Howard W[allace] Peak,A Ranger of Commerce or 52 Years on the Road, page87:

     There we were met by enterprising citizens and coffeed andsandwiched by pretty girls.

   • 1942 August 31, “Who Clipped the Soldiers’—Hair?”, inHarrisburg Telegraph, volume CXII, number206, Harrisburg, Pa., second section,page 9:

     Five soldiers had beensandwiched and coffeed at the Elks canteen, were a little short of money, needed haircuts.

   • 1953,[Irene Curzon, 2nd] Baroness Ravensdale,In Many Rhythms: An Autobiography, page249:

     I clothed desperate families, andsandwiched and teaed many distracted souls.

   • 1959 October 7, Charles House, “Charlie Pauses at 75-Mile Mark To Recount Latest Adventures”, inAppleton Post-Crescent, volume LI, number88, Appleton-Neenah-Menasha, Wis., section “Coffee Break”,pageA16:

     I write this on the kitchen table at the home of the kind Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Ebert, whosandwiched and coffee’d me.

   • 1964 October 13, Gene Cowles,Valley Times, volume27, number246, San Fernando Valley, Calif.,page15:

     Mrs. Robert (Helen) Adickes, of Flintridge, mate of the chairman of the Pilots For Goldwater committee, was in there pitching as usual seeing that everyone was fed and coffeed or, in the case of the young colts and fillies,sandwiched and popped.

   • 1975 October 14, Kathleen Merryman, “Freedom Train fires up parties”, inThe Billings Gazette, 90th year, number165, Billings, Mont.,page11-A:

     Hostesses like Laurie McCormack, who’s used to keeping politicians, press and businessmen coffeed andsandwiched on special visits to the train, sat back and let Jay Montague and other merchants reverse roles.

   • 1976 August 28, Joan Flanagan, “cassidy’s mob”, inThe Sydney Morning Herald, number43,275,page14:

     “In the daytimes, he fixes things for people,” I said, “and in return they keep himsandwiched and coffeed.”

5. (intransitive,rare) To eatsandwiches.
   • 1935 June 29, Ellen Snebley, “Teapot Tattle”, inSanta Ana Journal, volume 1, number52, Santa Ana, Calif.,page eight:

     Mr. and Mrs. Ted Craig (he^[sic] speaker of the assembly) emerging from a popular drive-in after havingsandwiched and coffeed . . .

   • 1965,Thea Astley,The Slow Natives, page196:

     He coffeed andsandwiched along the highway.

   • 2006, Gary Zingher, “The Child as Everyday Explorer”, inTheme Play: Exciting Young Imaginations,Libraries Unlimited,→ISBN, page95:

     The Red Knight and his squire might besandwiching at the very next table.

sandwich (notcomparable)

1. (US) Of ameal orserving size that issmaller than adinner.(Can we add anexample for this sense?)

• The adjective sense is used primarily by restaurants specializing in barbecue, and does not imply that the meal includes an actual sandwich.

Borrowed fromEnglishsandwich.

• IPA^(key):/sanvitsj/,[ˈsanˌʋid̥ɕ],[ˈsanˌwid̥ɕ],[ˈsanˌʋid̥s]

sandwich c (singular definitesandwichen,plural indefinitesandwichorsandwicher)

1. sandwich

• “sandwich” inDen Danske Ordbog

Borrowed fromEnglishsandwich, after the Earl of Sandwich.

• IPA^(key):/ˈsɛnd.ʋɪtʃ/

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• Hyphenation:sand‧wich

sandwich m (pluralsandwiches,diminutivesandwichje n)

1. sandwich

• A sandwich is more commonly called aboterham (which may also denote a single slice of bread) or abroodje (which may also denote a bun or roll) in Dutch.

• sandwichman

Borrowed fromEnglishsandwich.

• IPA^(key):/ˈsændʋits/,[ˈs̠æn.dʋits̠]
• IPA^(key):/ˈsændʋitʃ/,[ˈs̠æn.dʋit̪ʃ]
• Rhymes:-ændʋits
• Hyphenation^(key):sand‧wich

sandwich

1. sandwich(dish, usually one made with two pieces of bread with a filling in between)

   Synonym:kerrosvoileipä

2. (chiefly in compounds)sandwich(any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material)

• (dish):sänkkäri
• (layered material):sandwich-elementti,sandwich-rakenne

Borrowed fromEnglishsandwich.

• IPA^(key):/sɑ̃.dwiʃ/,/sɑ̃.dwitʃ/

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• (Quebec,Louisiana)IPA^(key):/san.dwitʃ/

sandwich m (pluralsandwichsorsandwiches)

1. sandwich(food)

   Hyponyms:jambon beurre,panini,tacos français

• French does not follow the English rule of addinges to nouns ending in the sound /tʃ/. Since the final /s/ is not pronounced in the plural, there is no difficulty in pronouncing the plural formed by addings rather thanes.

• sandwicherie
• croissandwich
• prendre en sandwich
• sandwich grec

• → Persian:ساندویچ(sândevič)

• “sandwich”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishsandwich.

• IPA^(key):/ˈsɛn.dwit͡ʃ/
• Rhymes:-ɛndwitʃ

sandwich m (invariable)

1. sandwich

• sandwicheria f

FromEnglishsandwich.

sandwich m (definite singularsandwichen,indefinite pluralsandwicher,definite pluralsandwichene)

1. asandwich

• “sandwich” inThe Bokmål Dictionary.
• “sandwich” inDet Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

FromEnglishsandwich, supposedly named for its inventor, theEarl of Sandwich.

sandwich m (definite singularsandwichen,indefinite pluralsandwichar,definite pluralsandwichane)

1. asandwich

• “sandwich” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary.

• sandoich(Limousin,Provençal)

sandwich m (pluralsandwiches)(Languedoc)

1. sandwich

   Synonyms:entrelesca,entrepan

• sandwichariá

• crostet

Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 622.

sandwich m (pluralsandwiches)

1. Misspelling ofsándwich.