sandwich
/ˈsænˌ(d)wɪt͡ʃ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.13 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
Example Sentences
- "The most famous place in Copenhagen, Ida Davidsen, has a menu of 190 different kinds of open sandwich."
- "[…] our local agricultural fair in Warwickshire even has a category for Victoria sandwiches baked by male bakers."
- "We have, and not so very long ago, seen women employed as 'sandwiches'."
- "We saw a few Gresley Moguls on goods, as a limited amount of freight traffic was sandwiched in even on this busy day."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Old English
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsænˌ(d)wɪt͡ʃ/
- British English: /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/
Usage
- British usage
- Archaic
- Transitive verb
- Informal
- Intransitive verb
- American usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
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