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sandwich¹

  • /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/ UK
  • /ˈsæn(d).wɪt͡ʃ/ UK
  • [ˈsæm.wɪd͡ʒ] UK
  • [ˈsæ̃.wɪd͡ʒ] UK
  • /ˈsænˌ(d)wɪt͡ʃ/ Canada, US
  • [ˈsæmˌ(w)ɪt͡ʃ] Canada, US
  • [ˈsæ̃ˌwɪt͡ʃ] Canada, US
  • /ˈsɛə̯nˌ(d)wɪt͡ʃ/
  • [ˈsɛə̯mˌ(w)ɪt͡ʃ]
  • [ˈsɛ̃ˌwɪt͡ʃ]
  • /ˈsæn.(d)wɪd͡ʒ/

Sounds like SDCH · Rhymes with -ɪdʒ, -ɪtʃ

Where it comes from

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

noun sandwiches · sandwichs · sammich · samwich · sangwich · Sandwich

  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. The most famous place in Copenhagen, Ida Davidsen, has a menu of 190 different kinds of open sandwich.
  2. broadly Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material.
  3. UK A layer cake or sandwich cake. […] our local agricultural fair in Warwickshire even has a category for Victoria sandwiches baked by male bakers.
  4. archaic A sandwichman (one who wears a sandwich board). We have, and not so very long ago, seen women employed as 'sandwiches'.

Similar: butty, grinder, piece, sambo, sammich, sammie, sammo, sanger, sango, sarmie, sarnie

verb sandwiches · sandwiching · sandwiched · sammich · samwich

  1. transitive To place (an item) physically between two other, usually flat, items. We saw a few Gresley Moguls on goods, as a limited amount of freight traffic was sandwiched in even on this busy day.
  2. figuratively, transitive To put or set between two other events in time. Street BASIC is becoming the language taught in junior high; it is sandwiched between Logo, which is taught in elementary school, and Pascal, which is taught in high school.
  3. transitive To double penetrate. They sandwiched 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. informal, transitive To feed sandwiches to. 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 and sandwiched for nothing!"
  5. intransitive, rare To eat sandwiches. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Craig (he^([sic]) speaker of the assembly) emerging from a popular drive-in after having sandwiched and coffeed . . .

adjective sammich · samwich · sangwich · Sandwich

  1. US, not comparable Of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner.

Sandwich²

Where it comes from

The family name is from Old English Sandwīċ, from sand + wīċ (“wick, settlement, harbour, hamlet”), equivalent to sand + -wich.

proper noun Sandwiches

  1. countable, uncountable A town and civil parish with a town council in Dover district, Kent, southeastern England, one of the historic Cinque Ports (OS grid ref TR3258).
  2. countable, uncountable An English habitational surname originating from this town. The young lady, who made her firſt appearance in Lady Bab Lardoon, at the Haymarket on Monday night laſt, is a Miſs Prideaux, and lineally deſcended from one of the daughters and co-heireſſes of the Right Hon. John Wilmot, the witty Earl of Rocheſter, and conſequently related to the Sandwiches, Pomf
  3. countable, uncountable A city in DeKalb County and Kendall County, Illinois, United States.
  4. countable, uncountable A town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States.
  5. countable, uncountable A town in Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States.

noun Sandwiches

  1. obsolete Obsolete form of sandwich I dined at the Cocoa Tree […] That reſpectable body, of which I have the honour of being a member, affords every evening a ſight truly English. Twenty or thirty, perhaps, of the firſt men in the kingdom, in point of faſhion and fortune, ſupping at little tables covered with a napkin, in the middle o

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: bun, biscuit, cheese, toast, meat, lunch, snack, tunafish, bite, mouthful, roll, multi-level, hero, club, alternation, islander

noun

Similar: butty, grinder, piece, sambo, sammich, sammie, sammo, sanger, sango, sarmie, sarnie

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noun dish — see also open sandwich

Españolsándwich, sánduche, sánguche, emparedado, torta, bocadillo
한국어샌드위치 saendeuwichi
日本語サンドイッチ sandoitchi, サンド sando
中文三明治 sānmíngzhì, 三文治 sānwénzhì, 三味治 sānwèizhì
हिन्दीसैंडविच saiṇḍvic
Portuguêssanduíche, sandes, sanduba
Françaissandwich
Deutschbelegtes Brot, Sandwich, Stulle, Schnitte
Italianotramezzino, panino
Ελληνικάσάντουιτς sántouits
Românăsandviș, tartină
Русскийса́ндвич sándvič, сэ́ндвич sɛ́ndvič, бутербро́д buterbród, butɛrbród
Tiếng Việtbánh mì kẹp, xăng-uých, xăng-đuých
العربيةسَانْدَوِيتْش sandawitš, شَطِيرَة šaṭīra, سَانْدَوِيش sāndawīš
עבריתכָּרִיך karíkh, סֶנדוִיץ׳ séndvich

verb to place one item between two other, usually flat, items

日本語サンドする sando suru, 挟む hasamu
Portuguêsensanduichar, sanduichar
Deutscheinklemmen, einzwängen
Русскийзажима́ть zažimátʹ, зажа́ть zažátʹ, вти́скивать vtískivatʹ, вти́снуть vtísnutʹ
Tiếng Việtkẹp, khoác

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@misc{sandwich_2026,
  title = {sandwich},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sandwich},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}