Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hoagie

/ˈhoʊ.ɡi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 2.12 in modern English

Syllables: hoagie
IPA: /ˈhoʊ.ɡi/

10

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A sandwich made on a long Italian bread or Italian roll.

American usage

noun

A tortilla or chapati wrap filled with meat (usually doner kebab meat; seasoned lamb or mutton), chips and cheese.

Example Sentences

"I'm going to Wawa to get a hoagie for lunch. Do any of yuhz want anything?"
"Known as a "hoagie", the combination of chips, doner kebab meat and cheese - which contains 136g of fat and 1224 calories - has been identified as the unhealthiest fastfood meal served to pupils in a recent survey."
"Many of my early paychecks from waitressing at 15 were spent on hoagies; fat and sauce dripping down my chin as the beige delights in the wrap merged together to create a wrong-but-right finished product."

Etymology

Uncertain. Often suggested to derive from hog, either in reference to Hog Island, a site of shipyards that employed Italian immigrants (who were supposedly called hoggies and who supposedly packed these sandwiches for lunch), or in reference to pork as an ingredient.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈhoʊ.ɡi/

Usage

American usage

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Food.

Inflected Forms

hoagies (plural) hoagy (alternative) hoggie (alternative)

Synonyms

submarine sandwich more there bomber grinder hero hero sandwich hoagy cuban sandwich italian sandwich poor boy sub submarine

Rhymes With

yogi bogey muskogee kogi hoagy fogy bogie stogie dogie pogey

Questions

How do you pronounce hoagie?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈhoʊ.ɡi/.
What does hoagie mean?: A sandwich made on a long Italian bread or Italian roll.
Where does hoagie come from?: Uncertain. Often suggested to derive from hog, either in reference to Hog Island, a site of shipyards that employed Italian immigrants (who were supposedly called hoggies and who supposedly packed these sandwiches for lunch), or in reference to pork as an ingredient.

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