Meanings
plural sandwichmen · alternative sandwich-man · alternative sandwich man
- A man who wears a sandwich board.
INDORSE To write on the back of; the best indorsed man in town being the Sandwich-Man.
1904, Gideon Wurdz, The Foolish Dictionary2 more examples
"There came along in the gutter a sandwich-man. […] Now I read what was on his boards. […]"
1899, Harold Frederic, The MarketplaceCertainly it amounted to a continual advertisement for him; an infinitely more effective advertisement than, for instance, a sandwichman at eighteen-pence a day, and costing no more, even with the licence and the shoeing.
1911, Arnold Bennett, The Card
Origin
- Englishsandwich (board)
- Proto-Indo-European*mon-
- Proto-Germanic*mann-
- Proto-West Germanic*mann
- Old Englishmann
- Middle Englishman
- Englishsandwichman
From sandwich (board) + -man.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Danish sandwichmand
- sandwichmandman who wears a sandwich board
Dutch sandwichman
- sandwichmanman who wears a sandwich board
Hungarian szendvicsember
- szendvicsemberman who wears a sandwich board
Japanese サンドイッチマン
- サンドイッチマンman who wears a sandwich board
Polish sandwichman
- sandwichmanman who wears a sandwich board
Cite this entry
sandwichman. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sandwichman
“sandwichman.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sandwichman. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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