hoagie

English

A hoagie (noun sense 1.1).

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Often suggested to derive from hog, either in reference to Hog Island, a site of shipyards that employed Italian immigrants (who were supposedly called hoggies and who supposedly packed these sandwiches for lunch), or in reference to pork as an ingredient.

Alternative forms

• hoagy
• hoggie (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhoʊ.ɡi/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -əʊɡi

Noun

hoagie (plural hoagies)

1. (US, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic US) A sandwich made on a (usually soft) long Italian roll; a submarine sandwich.

   I'm going to Wawa to get a hoagie for lunch.

Synonyms

• (sandwich): see sub

Etymology 2

Uncertain.

Noun

hoagie (plural hoagies)

1. (Scotland, chiefly Central Belt) A tortilla or chapati wrap filled with meat (usually doner kebab meat; seasoned lamb or mutton), chips and cheese.
   • 2005 August 20, “Forget turkey twizzlers... the 1200-calorie hoagie has arrived Takeaways used by school pupils to be told how to make their food more healthy”, in The Herald‎^[1]:

     Known as a "hoagie", the combination of chips, doner kebab meat and cheese - which contains 136g of fat and 1224 calories - has been identified as the unhealthiest fastfood meal served to pupils in a recent survey.

   • 2018 August 24, Jessica Lindsay, “Central Scotland’s hoagie wrap is a thing to behold”, in Metro‎^[2]:

     Many of my early paychecks from waitressing at 15 were spent on hoagies; fat and sauce dripping down my chin as the beige delights in the wrap merged together to create a wrong-but-right finished product.