sandwich

plural sandwiches · plural rare sandwichs · alternative colloquial sammich · alternative colloquial samwich · alternative colloquial sangwich · alternative obsolete Sandwich

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. broadlyAny combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material.
3. UKA 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. archaicA 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

present singular third person sandwiches · participle present sandwiching · participle past sandwiched · past sandwiched · alternative colloquial sammich · alternative colloquial samwich · alternative colloquial sangwich · alternative obsolete Sandwich

1. transitiveTo place (an item) physically between two other, usually flat, items.

   We saw a few Gresley Moguls on goods, as a limited amount of freight traffic was sandwiched in even on this busy day.

   1951 January, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Essex and Hertfordshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 46

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   An oddity of the auto-train services, incidentally, was the occasional "doubling", usually for football excursions, when the load was increased to four coaches with the engine sandwiched between.

   1959 May, William Jones, John Hodge, “Resorts for Railfans - 28: Cardiff, Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 265

   But as the game looked destined for a stalemate at half-time, the hammer blow arrived. A corner was just about cleared, only for the Scots to switch off. Vladimir Coufal overlapped with space and time on his side, his delivery being met by Schick, who steered his header home while sandwiched between Liam Cooper and Grant Hanley.

   2021 June 14, Scott Mullen, “Scotland 0-2 Czech Republic”, in BBC Sport

   One can't escape the huge nuclear facility at Sellafield (supplier of much of the line's remaining freight traffic), or miss the wild shingle beaches with exposed and precarious bungalows sandwiched between the railway and the shore at Braystones.

   2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 57

2. figurativelytransitiveTo put or set between two other events in time.

   Street BASIC is becoming the language taught in junior high; it is sandwiched between Logo, which is taught in elementary school, and Pascal, which is taught in high school.

   1988, Cynthia Solomon, Computer Environments for Children, page 94

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   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.

   2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport

3. transitivelifestyleTo double penetrate.

   They sandwiched her, the footballer at her back, his dick tucked into the perfect seam of her ass as he fingered her pussy while the shorter, leaner, covered-in-tattoos Monsieur Artiste kissed her and pinched her nipples

   2017, Madhuri Pavamani, Juma

4. informaltransitiveTo feed sandwiches to.

   I clothed desperate families, and sandwiched and teaed many distracted souls.

   1953, [Irene Curzon, 2nd] Baroness Ravensdale, In Many Rhythms: An Autobiography, page 249

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   But one or two evil-disposed characters muttered they might be sure the lady had her own turn to serve, and they might be sure they wasn't "teaed and muffined and sandwiched for nothing!"

   1866, Emma Jane Worboise, “The St. Beetha’s Temperance Society”, in St. Beetha’s; or, The Heiress of Arne, London: “Christian World” Office, […]; Jackson, Walford, and Hodder, […], →OCLC, page 213

   The association of veteran firemen, which has a membership of 200, kept open house for New Year callers, and all comers were bountifully sandwiched and coffeed.

   1897 January 7, “City’s Veteran Firemen. New Year Reception. The Rooms of the Association Filled with Guests. Reminiscences, Reunion, and Refreshments,”, in The Pittsfield Sun, volume 97, number 26, Pittsfield, Mass., page 7

   Here at Camp Wheeler we “coffeed” and “sandwiched” the drafted men when they came from Camp Gordon several weeks ago, and the men from Camp Pike more recently.

   1917 November 11, Dumas Malone, “The Ring and the Red Triangle: How the Men Who Wear the New Insignia Go With the Army”, in The Macon Daily Telegraph, Macon, Ga., first section, article section “The Ever-Ready Hut”, page four

   There we were met by enterprising citizens and coffeed and sandwiched by pretty girls.

   1929, Howard W[allace] Peak, A Ranger of Commerce or 52 Years on the Road, page 87

   Five soldiers had been sandwiched and coffeed at the Elks canteen, were a little short of money, needed haircuts.

   1942 August 31, “Who Clipped the Soldiers’—Hair?”, in Harrisburg Telegraph, volume CXII, number 206, Harrisburg, Pa., second section, page 9

5. intransitiverareTo eat sandwiches.

   He coffeed and sandwiched along the highway.

   1965, Thea Astley, The Slow Natives, page 196

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   Mr. and Mrs. Ted Craig (he^([sic]) speaker of the assembly) emerging from a popular drive-in after having sandwiched and coffeed . . .

   1935 June 29, Ellen Snebley, “Teapot Tattle”, in Santa Ana Journal, volume 1, number 52, Santa Ana, Calif., page eight

   The Red Knight and his squire might be sandwiching at the very next table.

   2006, Gary Zingher, “The Child as Everyday Explorer”, in Theme Play: Exciting Young Imaginations, Libraries Unlimited, →ISBN, page 95

alternative colloquial sammich · alternative colloquial samwich · alternative colloquial sangwich · alternative obsolete Sandwich

1. USnot comparableOf a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner.

plural Sandwiches

1. countableuncountableA town and civil parish with a town council in Dover district, Kent, southeastern England, one of the historic Cinque Ports (OS grid ref TR3258).
2. countableuncountableAn English habitational surname originating from this town.

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   The young lady, who made her firſt appearance in Lady Bab Lardoon, at the Haymarket on Monday night laſt, is a Miſs Prideaux, and lineally deſcended from one of the daughters and co-heireſſes of the Right Hon. John Wilmot, the witty Earl of Rocheſter, and conſequently related to the Sandwiches, Pomfrets, Coopers, and many other noble families.

   1788 July 10, “Friday’s Post”, in The Ipswich Journal, number 3026, Ipswich, Suffolk, published 12 July 1788, page [2], column 1

3. One of several younger towns named after the town in Kent or after a person bearing the surname:
   1. countableuncountableA city in DeKalb County and Kendall County, Illinois, United States.
   2. countableuncountableA town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States.
   3. countableuncountableA town in Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States.

plural Sandwiches

1. obsoleteObsolete form of sandwich.

   Sir Ch[ristopher]. Not a morſel, Tom, if you would give me the univerſe. / Rack[et]. Pooh, man, only a Sandwich or ſo.

   1771 (first performance), Samuel Foote, “Act I.”, in The Maid of Bath, a Comedy of Three Acts, […], London: […] George Allen, […], published [1775?], page 10

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   I dined at the Cocoa Tree […] That reſpectable body, of which I have the honour of being a member, affords every evening a ſight truly English. Twenty or thirty, perhaps, of the firſt men in the kingdom, in point of faſhion and fortune, ſupping at little tables covered with a napkin, in the middle of a coffee-room, upon a bit of cold meat, or a Sandwich, and drinking a glaſs of punch.

   1762 November 24 (date written), Edward Gibbon, “Memoirs of My Life and Writings”, in John Lord Sheffield [i.e., John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield], editor, Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire. […], volume I, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan, and T[homas] Cadell Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, (successors to Mr. [Thomas] Cadell), […], published 1796, →OCLC, page 110

   A Receipt to thin the Houſe of Commons. Put Mr. Martin in the chair—let Mr. Alderman Watſon have the opening ſpeech—Mr. Hawkins Brown the anſwer—Mr. Drake the reply—Mr. Beaufoy the rejoinder—and forbid the eating of Sandwiches in the gallery. Probatum eſt!

   1789 August 27, “Foreign Intelligence”, in The Pennsylvania Packet, and Daily Advertiser, number 3369, Philadelphia, Pa., published 17 November 1789, page [2], column 2

   Anstruther is a mighty good ſort of a man—but every man is not born an orator; even Mrs. Anſtruther, who has an excellent underſtanding, is obliged to have recourſe to Sandwiches, to render the unavoidable attendance ſupportable.

   1790 February 27, “Oratorios”, in The Times, number 1615, London, page [3], column 1

   While many a suitor, / And gay coadjutor / In the eating-and-drinking line, scorns to be neuter; / One, being perhaps just return’d with his tutor / From travel in England, is tempting his “future” / With a luxury neat as imported, “The Pewter,” / And charming the dear Violantes and Iñeses / With a three-corner’d Sandwich, and soupçon of “Guinness’s;” / While another, from Paris but newly come back, / Hints “the least taste in life” of the best cogniac.

   1841 October, Thomas Ingoldsby [pseudonym; Richard Barham], “The Auto-da-fé. A Legend of Spain.”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume X, London: Richard Bentley, […], canto II, page 473

   FORSTER & DAVIS Will sell by public auction, at their Mart, THIS DAY, the 11th March, instant, at twelve o’clock, […] One egg whisk / Six Sandwich boxes assorted / Six gravy strainers […]

   1843 March 11, The Port Phillip Gazette, volume V, number 433, Melbourne, Vic., page [3], column 5