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hoagie¹

  • /ˈhoʊ.ɡi/ US

Rhymes with -əʊɡi

Where it comes from

Uncertain. Often suggested to derive from hog, either in reference to Hog Island, a site of shipyards that employed Italian immigrants (who were supposedly called hoggies and who supposedly packed these sandwiches for lunch), or in reference to pork as an ingredient.

noun hoagies · hoagy · hoggie

  1. Mid Atlantic, Pennsylvania, US A sandwich made on a long Italian bread or Italian roll. I'm going to Wawa to get a hoagie for lunch. Do any of yuhz want anything?

    Similar: submarine sandwich, more there

hoagie²

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noun hoagies

  1. Scotland A tortilla or chapati wrap filled with meat (usually doner kebab meat; seasoned lamb or mutton), chips and cheese. Known as a "hoagie", the combination of chips, doner kebab meat and cheese - which contains 136g of fat and 1224 calories - has been identified as the unhealthiest fastfood meal served to pupils in a recent survey.

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@misc{hoagie_2026,
  title = {hoagie},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hoagie},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}