Sarnie
//ˈsɑːni// noun, slang
noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A sandwich. British, informal
"Hello my flower, shall I fix up a cheese sarnie for you?"
- 2 The Sandwich tern. UK
Example
More examples"Tom's mum makes him a sarnie every morning."
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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