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samwich

samwich 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 samwich

pluralsamwiches

Questions about samwich

What is samwich the pronunciation spelling of?
Samwich is the pronunciation spelling of sandwich.

Words near samwich in the dictionary

  1. samvats
  2. samvega
  3. samvydav
  4. samvydavs
  5. Samways
  6. samwich
  7. samwiches
  8. Samwise Gamgee
  9. samydaceous
  10. san
  11. San Agustin

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