sarnie
/ˈsɑːni/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.62 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Hello my flower, shall I fix up a cheese sarnie for you?"
- "With their jock-straps pinching, they slouch to attention While queueing for sarnies at the office canteen."
- "In fact no one was playing bingo, 10p or otherwise. Nor had the patrons been enticed by the complimentary shrink-wrapped sarnies and packets of cheese-and-onion on offer in the roped-off ‘Over 18s VIP area’, with its £500-jackpot fruit machines."
- "Just like Marple, there's a plaque at the London terminus [Paddington] commemorating a fictional character - a polite, friendly little bear from darkest Peru who has a penchant for marmalade sarnies."
Etymology
From sarn- (“perhaps from a dialectal pronunciation of the first syllable of sandwich”) + -ie. Alternatively, perhaps a misreading or an intentional dissimilation of samie (i.e. sammie), where the 'm' is mistaken for or replaced with 'rn'.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈsɑːni/