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Sarnie

//ˈsɑːni// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A sandwich. British, informal

    "Hello my flower, shall I fix up a cheese sarnie for you?"

  2. 2
    The Sandwich tern. UK

Etymology

From sarn- (“perhaps from a dialectal pronunciation of the first syllable of sandwich”) + -ie. Alternatively, perhaps a misreading or an intentional dissimilation of samie (i.e. sammie), where the 'm' is mistaken for or replaced with 'rn'.

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