sandwich

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English

Alternative forms

• sammich (slang)
• Sandwich (obsolete)

Etymology

Named after its supposed inventor, the Earl of Sandwich (see Sandwich).

Pronunciation

• (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/
• Homophone: SDCH

Noun

sandwich (plural sandwiches or (rare) sandwichs)

1. A dish or foodstuff where at least one piece, but typically two or more pieces, of bread serves as the wrapper or container of some other food.
2. (by extension) Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material.
3. (UK) A layer cake or sandwich cake.
4. (archaic) A sandwichman (one who wears a sandwich board).
   • Pall Mall Gazette, quoted in 2004, Chris Jenks, Urban Culture, page 129:

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

Usage notes

• In Ireland and the UK, sandwich often presupposes sliced bread, in which case similar foods made with other types of bread are called "filled roll", "filled bap", etc.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:sandwich

Hyponyms

• 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)

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

References

Verb

sandwich (third-person singular simple present sandwiches, present participle sandwiching, simple past and past participle sandwiched)

1. (transitive) To place (an item) physically between two other, usually flat, items.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To put or set between two other events in time.
3. (transitive, sex) To double penetrate.
4. (transitive, informal) To feed sandwiches to.
5. (intransitive, rare) To eat sandwiches.

Translations

Adjective

sandwich (not comparable)

1. (US) Of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Usage notes

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

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English sandwich.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sandwich c (singular definite sandwichen, plural indefinite sandwich or sandwicher)

1. sandwich

Declension

Derived terms

References

• “sandwich” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English sandwich, after the Earl of Sandwich.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛnd.ʋɪtʃ/
• Hyphenation: sand‧wich

Noun

sandwich m (plural sandwiches, diminutive sandwichje n)

1. sandwich

Usage notes

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

Derived terms

• sandwichman

Finnish

Etymology

< English sandwich

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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)

Declension

Derived terms

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

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English sandwich.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sandwich m (plural sandwichs or sandwiches)

1. sandwich (food)

   Hyponyms: jambon beurre, panini, tacos français

Usage notes

• French does not follow the English rule of adding es 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 adding s rather than es.

Derived terms

• sandwicherie
• croissandwich
• prendre en sandwich
• sandwich grec

Descendants

• → Persian: ساندویچ (sândevič)

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English sandwich.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sandwich m (invariable)

1. sandwich

Derived terms

• sandwicheria f

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English sandwich.

Noun

sandwich m (definite singular sandwichen, indefinite plural sandwicher, definite plural sandwichene)

1. a sandwich

References

• “sandwich” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “sandwich” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English sandwich, supposedly named for its inventor, the Earl of Sandwich.

Noun

sandwich m (definite singular sandwichen, indefinite plural sandwichar, definite plural sandwichane)

1. a sandwich

References

• “sandwich” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Alternative forms

• sandoich (Limousin, Provençal)

Noun

sandwich m (plural sandwiches) (Languedoc)

1. sandwich

   Synonyms: entrelesca, entrepan

Derived terms

• sandwichariá

See also

• crostet

Further reading

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

Spanish

Noun

sandwich m (plural sandwiches)

1. Misspelling of sándwich.