Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sandwichman

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sand-wich-man
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A man who wears a sandwich board.

Example Sentences

""There came along in the gutter a sandwich-man. […] Now I read what was on his boards. […]""
"INDORSE To write on the back of; the best indorsed man in town being the Sandwich-Man."
"Certainly 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."

Etymology

Etymology tree English sandwich (board) Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Middle English man Middle English -man English -man English sandwichman From sandwich (board) + -man.

Inflected Forms

sandwichmen (plural) sandwich-man (alternative) sandwich man (alternative)

Questions

What does sandwichman mean?: A man who wears a sandwich board.
Where does sandwichman come from?: Etymology tree English sandwich (board) Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Middle English man Middle English -man English -man English sandwichman From sandwich (board) + -man.

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