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sanger¹

  • /ˈsæŋə/ Australia

Rhymes with -æŋə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

Abbreviation of sandwich (pronounced sangwich) + -er (colloquialising suffix). Australian from 1960s.

noun sangers

  1. Australia, colloquial, informal A sandwich. […]I popped the last of the strawberry sangers into my mouth, craned my neck over the bureaucrat′s gelati-hued shoulder and feasted my eyes.

    Similar: sambo, sammie, sammo, sango, sarnie

sanger²

noun sangers

  1. alternative Alternative form of sangar The enemy had a line of sangers along the far edge of nullah right across the valley, with sangers at intervals up the steep mountains on either side into the snows, and occupied, as far as we could guess, by some 2,000 men.

Sanger³

  • /ˈsæŋə/ Australia

Rhymes with -æŋə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

An occupational surname from Middle English, from Old English sangere (“singer”).

proper noun Sanker

  1. A surname originating as an occupation. Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger is alleging that the online encyclopedia has a left-leaning bias and “a lot of problems,” and recently released a nine-point plan to fix it.
  2. A city in Fresno County, California.
  3. A ghost town in Oliver County, North Dakota.
  4. A city in Denton County, Texas.
  5. An unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia.
  6. A locality in the Federation council area, southern New South Wales, Australia.

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"sanger." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/sanger. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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sanger. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/sanger

Chicago

"sanger." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/sanger.

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@misc{sanger_2026,
  title = {sanger},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sanger},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}