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sammich

/ˈsæmɪt͡ʃ/

sammich is the pronunciation spelling of sandwich.

Meaning of sandwich

Noun

sandwich (plural sandwiches or (rare) sandwichs)

  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.2020 January 21, Brontë Aurell, The Little Book of Scandi Living, White Lion Publishing, →ISBN, page 51
  2. (broadly) Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material.
  3. (UK) A layer cake or sandwich cake.
    • […] our local agricultural fair in Warwickshire even has a category for Victoria sandwiches baked by male bakers.2016, Alysa Levene, Cake: A Slice of History
  4. (archaic) A sandwichman (one who wears a sandwich board).
    • We have, and not so very long ago, seen women employed as 'sandwiches'.Pall Mall Gazette, quoted in 2004, Chris Jenks, Urban Culture, page 129

See all 15 meanings of sandwich

Forms of sammich

pluralsammiches

Origin of sammich

The pronunciation explains itself through the usual elision of /d/ (san'wich) and subsequent coalescence of /nw/ to /m/.

Phrases with sammich

Questions about sammich

What is sammich the pronunciation spelling of?
Sammich is the pronunciation spelling of sandwich.
How do you pronounce sammich?
Sammich is pronounced /ˈsæmɪt͡ʃ/.

Words near sammich in the dictionary

  1. Sammartino
  2. Sammartinos
  3. sammed
  4. sammel
  5. Sammi
  6. sammich
  7. sammiches
  8. sammie
  9. sammied
  10. sammier
  11. sammiers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sammich (page history and authors); sandwich (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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