samwich

plural samwiches

1. pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of sandwich.

   Naddie and I went to the park. We took a picnic basket and had lunch. I ate a peanut butter and jam samwich.

   2007 July 10, J. G. Martinson, chapter 12, in Deception’s Full Circle, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 121

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   Waitresses wear little name tags carved out of wood, and the menu is littered with Southern aphorisms (“it ain’t what a man don’t know that hurts him, it’s what he knows that ain’t so”) and deliberately kittenish misspellings (“kuntry,” “samwich,” “shef”).

   [1988 August 5, Max Jacobson, “Restaurants: The Concept Is Hokey, but We’re Talking Value Here”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2025

   Within the red-and-white checkered world, we munched prosaic foods, what I called "samwiches," and nibbled from little baggies of washed fruit and crushed cookies. […] Even in the Bronx, it seemed likely that nymphs and naiads were afoot. Inspired, I might leap up to do a "dance of the samwich," a celebration of grape jelly that was a bit Dionysian. […] When I was 8 and she was 43, we had a picnic in the shadowed Ramble of Central Park. We did not know it was our last. We shared a final "samwich."

   1993 June 30, Laura Cunningham, “Confessions of a Passionate Picnicker”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 May 2015

   Piazza seemed relaxed when he arrived at the ballpark early yesterday, carting in boxes of hoagies and multiple pizzas for his teammates. “I’ve been doing it for a few years,” said Piazza, who was born in nearby Norristown, PA, and graduated from Phoenixville (PA) High School. “I missed it one day and [ex-Met] Lenny Harris said, ‘Where’s them samwiches?’ / “The guys love them.”

   2002 May 23, Michael Morrissey, “Getting Back to Business: [Mike] Piazza & Co. Look to Move On”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Oct 2013

   “I’M A MOTHER FUCKIN’ BAD BITCH; GO ON, MAKE ME A SAMWICH, YOU ANNOYING, LIKE VAG ITCH, SO LAME, IT’S FUCKIN’ TRAGIC… BAD BITCH, BAD BITCH.”

   2022 August 18, Nick Bilton, “The Ballad of Razzlekhan and Dutch, Bitcoin’s Bonnie and Clyde”, in Radhika Jones, editor, Vanity Fair, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2022