sandwich

See also Sandwich, and sándwich

English

Wikipedia

An Italian sandwich.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪtʃ
• IPA: /ˈsændwɪtʃ/, /ˈsændwɪdʒ/, SAMPA: /"s{ndwItS/, /"s{ndwIdZ/

• Audio (US)

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• Homophone: SDCH

Noun

sandwich (plural sandwiches)

1. A snack formed of various ingredients between two slices of bread

   cheese sandwich

2. An open sandwich
3. Any combination formed by layering material of one type between two layers of material of another type

Synonyms

• butty (UK, for a warm snack)
• sanger (Australia, informal)
• sango (Australia, informal)
• sarnie (UK, informal)
• sambo (IE, informal)
• See also Wikisaurus:sandwich

Derived terms

Terms derived from sandwich

club sandwich Dutch sandwich knuckle sandwich open sandwich

sandwich spread sandwich board sandwichy

soup sandwich

Translations

snack consisting of two slices of bread

Afrikaans: toebroodjie American Sign Language: FlatB@FromMouth-PalmDown-FlatB@Palm-PalmUp FlatB@NearMouth-FlatB@Palm, BentB@BackHand-PalmBack-BentB@NearMouth-PalmBack BentB@BackHand-BentB@Mouth, BentB@PalmChesthigh-PalmBackThumbAside-B@FromMouth-PalmBack Arabic: ساندويتش (ar) (sandawitsh) m. Catalan: entrepà  (ca) m., sandvitx  (ca) m., badall (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 三明治 (cmn) (sānmíngzhì) Czech: sendvič (cs) m. Danish: sandwich (da), (local) amagermad (da) Dutch: boterham (nl) m., sandwich (nl) m. Esperanto: sandviĉo (eo) Estonian: võileib (et) Finnish: kerrosvoileipä (fi), voileipä (fi) French: sandwich (fr) m. Norman French: sannouiche (fr) f. German: belegtes Brot (de) n., Sandwich (de) n., m. Greek: σάντουιτς (el) (sántouits) n. Hebrew: כריך (he) (karikh) Hindi: सैंडविच (hi) (saiṇḍavic) m. Hungarian: szendvics (hu) Icelandic: samloka (is) f. Indonesian: roti lapis (id) Irish: ceapaire (ga) m. Italian: tramezzino (it) m., panino (it) m. Japanese: サンドイッチ (ja) (sandoitchi)

Khmer: នំប៉ុងញាត់សាច់ (km) (num pong ñoat sach) Korean: 샌드위치 (ko) (saendeuwichi) Lithuanian: Sumuštinis (lt) Macedonian: сендвич (mk) (séndvič) m. Norwegian: sandwich (no), smørbrød (no) Persian: ساندویچ (fa) (sândevič) Polish: kanapka (pl) f. Portuguese: sanduíche (pt) m. (Brazil), sandes (pt) f. (Portugal) Romanian: sandviș (ro) n. Russian: сандвич (ru) (sándvič) m., сэндвич (ru) (séndvič) m., бутерброд (ru) (butɛrbród) m. Scottish Gaelic: ceapaire (gd) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: се̏ндвич (sh) m. Roman: sȅndvič (sh) m. Sinhalese: සැන්ඩ්විච් (si) (sænḍvic) Slovene: sendvič (sl) m. Spanish: sándwich (es) m., emparedado (es) m., (Mexico) torta (es) f., (Spain) bocadillo (es) m. Swedish: sandwich (sv) c., dubbelmacka (sv) c., (also for open sandwiches) macka (sv) c. Telugu: అప్పచ్చి (appacchi) Turkish: sandviç (tr) Urdu: سینڈوچ (ur) (saiṇḍavic) m. Vietnamese: bánh mì (vi) (also means "bread"), bánh mì kẹp, xăng-duych (rare) Volapük: sändvig (vo) Welsh: brechdan (cy) West Frisian: brogge (fy)

open sandwich — see open sandwich

layers of material

Finnish: sandwich (fi)

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Slovak: obložený chlebíček m. (1), sendvič m. (1)

Verb

sandwich (third-person singular simple present sandwiches, present participle sandwiching, simple past and past participle sandwiched)

1. To place one item between two other, usually flat, items
2. (figuratively) To put or set something between two others, in time.
   • 2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, BBC Sport:

     Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley.

Translations

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

Finnish: kerrostaa (fi) German: einklemmen, einzwängen

Vietnamese: kẹp (vi), khoác (vi)

Adjective

sandwich (not comparable)

1. (US) Of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner.

Usage notes

• The adjective sense is used primarily by restaurants specializing in barbeque, and does not imply that the meal includes an actual sandwich.

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French

Etymology

Borrowing from English sandwich

Pronunciation

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Noun

sandwich m. (plural sandwichs)

1. sandwich (snack)

Usage notes

• Note that French does not follow the English rule of adding es to nouns ending in the sound /tʃ/. Since the final /s/ is not pronounced in the plural, there is no difficulty in pronouncing the plural formed by adding {{s}} rather than es.