dagwood sandwich
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.77 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An exceptionally thick sandwich made with numerous layers of various meats, cheeses, vegetables, and condiments.
Informal
noun
A thick stack of flat objects or a complicated melange of diverse components or ingredients.
noun
Example Sentences
- "The kind of sandwich he made famous, the Dagwood sandwich, is a hodgepodge of leftovers in the refrigerator all wedged in between two slices of bread."
- "Everyone gets the late-night munchies now and then, whether for rocky road ice cream or a Dagwood sandwich of salami, pickles and deli Swiss on rye."
- "And who wouldn't like to think of the Dagwood sandwich somewhere on the White House menu?"
- "As one of Groucho Marx's writers told it: an unemployed actor was interrupted at breakfast by his wife carrying a Dagwood sandwich of unpaid bills."
- "[T]o use the full 512K theoretically available, one will have a computer carrying a Dagwood sandwich of expansion attachments on one of its sides."
- "Today’s Morning Jolt is just a Dagwood sandwich of bad news for Obamacare, piled higher and higher."
Etymology
Named after American comic strip character Dagwood Bumstead, a character in the American comic strip Blondie.