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Sandwich

//ˈsæn.wɪd͡ʒ// adj, name, noun, verb, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner. US, not-comparable
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    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. 2
    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, Pomfrets, Coopers, and many other noble families."

  3. 3
    One of several younger towns named after the town in Kent or after a person bearing the surname:; A city in DeKalb County and Kendall County, Illinois, United States.
  4. 4
    One of several younger towns named after the town in Kent or after a person bearing the surname:; A town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States.
  5. 5
    One of several younger towns named after the town in Kent or after a person bearing the surname:; A town in Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States.
Noun
  1. 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. 2
    Obsolete form of sandwich. alt-of, obsolete

    "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 of a coffee-room, upon a bit of cold meat, or a Sandwich, and drinking a glaſs of punch."

  3. 3
    two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them wordnet
  4. 4
    Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material. broadly
  5. 5
    A layer cake or sandwich cake. UK

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

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  1. 6
    A sandwichman (one who wears a sandwich board). archaic

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

Verb
  1. 1
    To place (an item) physically between two other, usually flat, items. transitive

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

  2. 2
    insert or squeeze tightly between two people or objects wordnet
  3. 3
    To put or set between two other events in time. figuratively, transitive

    "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."

  4. 4
    make into a sandwich wordnet
  5. 5
    To double penetrate. transitive

    "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"

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  1. 6
    To feed sandwiches to. informal, transitive

    "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!""

  2. 7
    To eat sandwiches. intransitive, rare

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

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

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

Etymology 4

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

Etymology 5

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

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