# sandwich
## English
### Alternative forms

* sammich (slang)
* Sandwich (obsolete)

### Etymology

Named after its supposed inventor, the Earl of Sandwich (see Sandwich).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈsæn(d)wɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈsæn(d)wɪt͡ʃ/, [ˈsæmwɪd͡ʒ], [ˈsæ̃wɪd͡ʒ]
* (US) IPA: /ˈsænˌ(d)wɪt͡ʃ/, [ˈsæmˌwɪt͡ʃ], [ˈsæmˌɪt͡ʃ], [ˈsæ̃ˌwɪt͡ʃ]
** (Maryland) IPA: /ˈsæn(d)wɪd͡ʒ/
* (Canada) IPA: /ˈsænˌ(d)wɪt͡ʃ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Homophone: SDCH

### Noun

sandwich (plural sandwiches or (rare) sandwichs)
* 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.
** 2002, Serena Carrington, Avalon, Writers Club Press, page 92:He laid out a linen tablecloth and a few sandwichs from some bread, dressing, and beef.
** 2012, Allie McNeil, Watergate Summer, AuthorHouse, page 160:And the only "care" I could offer was egg sandwichs and Lilly's unfaltering attention.
** 2020 January 21, Brontë Aurell, The Little Book of Scandi Living, White Lion Publishing, →ISBN, page 51:The most famous place in Copenhagen, Ida Davidsen, has a menu of 190 different kinds of open sandwich.
* (by extension) Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material.
* (UK) A layer cake or sandwich cake.
** 2016, Alysa Levene, Cake: A Slice of History:[…] our local agricultural fair in Warwickshire even has a category for Victoria sandwiches baked by male bakers.
* (archaic) A sandwichman (one who wears a sandwich board).
** Pall Mall Gazette, quoted in 2004, Chris Jenks, Urban Culture, page 129:
    We have, and not so very long ago, seen women employed as 'sandwiches'.

#### Usage notes

* In Ireland and the UK, sandwich often presupposes sliced bread, in which case similar foods made with other types of bread are called "filled roll", "filled bap", etc.

#### Synonyms

* See Thesaurus:sandwich

#### Hyponyms

* open-faced sandwich (uncovered); BLT (bacon with lettuce & tomato); banh mi (Vietnamese, usually on baguette); patty melt (ground beef on bread); hamburger, burger (ground beef, usually on bun); -burger (other meats on a bun); hot dog (tubular, highly disputed)

#### Derived terms

* air sandwich
* barley sandwich
* bite of the reality sandwich
* booger sandwich
* bread sandwich
* cannibal sandwich
* clubhouse sandwich
* club sandwich
* cocktail sandwich
* combination sandwich
* cookie sandwich
* crazy as a soup sandwich
* croissandwich
* Cuban sandwich
* cyclone sandwich
* Dag sandwich
* dag sandwich
* dagwood sandwich
* Dagwood sandwich
* Denver sandwich
* dirt sandwich
* Dutch sandwich
* egg sandwich
* Elvis sandwich
* fat sandwich
* finger sandwich
* fishwich
* frosted ribbon sandwich
* Gerber sandwich
* ham sandwich
* ham-sandwich
* ham sandwich theorem
* hero sandwich
* Hillel sandwich
* honeycomb sandwich
* horseshoe sandwich
* hot hamburger sandwich
* ice cream sandwich
* indict a ham sandwich
* Italian sandwich
* Italian submarine sandwich
* Italian sub sandwich
* jam sandwich
* knuckle sandwich
* lead sandwich
* liberty sandwich
* loose-meat sandwich
* ma'am sandwich
* melt sandwich
* Monte Cristo sandwich
* mother-in-law sandwich
* naanwich
* nothing sandwich
* open sandwich
* pizza submarine sandwich
* pizza sub sandwich
* ploughman's sandwich
* poop sandwich
* prawn sandwich brigade
* Rachel sandwich
* Saint Paul sandwich
* sammich (eye dialect)
* sando
* sandwichable
* sandwich bag
* sandwich bar
* sandwich beam
* sandwich board
* sandwich bread
* sandwich care
* sandwich carer
* sandwich caring
* sandwich class
* sandwich coin
* sandwich compound
* sandwich cookie
* sandwich course
* sandwich degree
* sandwich generation
* sandwich girder
* sandwich glass
* sandwich loaf
* sandwich-man
* sandwich man
* sandwich panel
* sandwich paper
* sandwich pick
* sandwich round
* sandwich shell
* sandwich spread
* sandwich sudoku
* sandwich tern
* sandwich testing
* sandwich theory
* sandwich time
* sandwichy
* shit sandwich
* sir sandwich
* soup sandwich
* St. Paul sandwich
* submarine sandwich
* sub sandwich
* tavern sandwich
* tea sandwich
* thick sandwich course
* thick sandwich degree
* thin sandwich course
* thin sandwich degree
* tin sandwich
* toast sandwich
* tomato sandwich
* tongue sandwich
* Vietnamese sandwich
* water sandwich
* wildcat sandwich

#### Descendants

* Arabic: سَانْدَوِيتْش (sandawitš)
* Armenian: սենդվիչ (sendvičʻ)
* Bengali: স্যান‌্উইজ (sên‌uij)
* Bulgarian: са́ндвич (sándvič)
* Burmese: ဆန်းဒဝစ် (hcan:da.wac)
* Catalan: sandvitx
* Chinese: 三明治 (sānmíngzhì), 三文治 (sānwénzhì)
* Czech: sendvič
* Danish: sandwich
* Dutch: sandwich
* Esperanto: sandviĉo
* Finnish: sandwich, sänkkäri
* French: sandwich
    Norman French: sannouiche
* Galician: sándwich
* Georgian: სენდვიჩი (sendviči)
* German: Sandwich
* Greek: σάντουιτς (sántouits)
* Hawaiian: kanauika
* Hindi: सैंडविच (saiṇḍvic)
* Hungarian: szendvics
* Ido: sandwicho
* Japanese: サンドイッチ (sandoitchi)
* Korean: 샌드위치 (saendeuwichi)
* Latvian: sendvičs
* Marshallese: jāānwūj
* Malay: sandwic
* Norman: sannouiche
* Norwegian: sandwich
* Persian: ساندویچ (sândevič)
* Occitan: sandoich, sandwich
* Polish: sandwicz
* Portuguese: sanduíche (Brazil), sandes (Portugal)
* Romanian: sandviș, sandvici
* Russian: са́ндвич (sándvič), сэ́ндвич (sɛ́ndvič)
* Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: се̏ндвич
    Latin script: sȅndvič
* Sinhalese: සැන්ඩ්විච් (sænḍwic)
* Slovene: sendvič
* Spanish: sándwich, sánduche (Colombia, Ecuador, Puerto Rico, Venezuela), sánguche (Argentina, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela)
* Swedish: sandwich
* Thai: แซนด์วิช (sɛɛn-wít)
* Tibetan: སན་ཊ་ཝིཆི (san ṭa wichi)
* Turkish: sandviç
* Urdu: سینڈوچ (saiṇḍavic)
* Vietnamese: xăng duych
* Volapük: sändvig

#### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

#### References

* ↑ Lynne Murphy (28 May 2014) "sandwiches, more particularly bacon sandwiches" Separated by a Common Language

### Verb

sandwich (third-person singular simple present sandwiches, present participle sandwiching, simple past and past participle sandwiched)
* (transitive) To place (an item) physically between two other, usually flat, items.
** 1951 January, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Essex and Hertfordshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 46:We saw a few Gresley Moguls on goods, as a limited amount of freight traffic was sandwiched in even on this busy day.
** 1959 May, William Jones, John Hodge, “Resorts for Railfans - 28: Cardiff, Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 265: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.
** 2021 June 14, Scott Mullen, “Scotland 0-2 Czech Republic”, in BBC Sport‎: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.
** 2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 57:One can't escape the huge nuclear facility at Sellafield (supplier of much of the line's remaining freight traffic), or miss the wild shingle beaches with exposed and precarious bungalows sandwiched between the railway and the shore at Braystones.
* (transitive, figuratively) To put or set between two other events in time.
** 1988, Cynthia Solomon, Computer Environments for Children, page 94:Street BASIC is becoming the language taught in junior high; it is sandwiched between Logo, which is taught in elementary school, and Pascal, which is taught in high school.
** 2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport‎:Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley.
* (transitive, sex) To double penetrate.
** 2017, Madhuri Pavamani, Juma:They sandwiched her, the footballer at her back, his dick tucked into the perfect seam of her ass as he fingered her pussy while the shorter, leaner, covered-in-tattoos Monsieur Artiste kissed her and pinched her nipples
* (transitive, informal) To feed sandwiches to.
** 1866, Emma Jane Worboise, “The St. Beetha’s Temperance Society”, in St. Beetha’s; or, The Heiress of Arne, London: “Christian World” Office, […]; Jackson, Walford, and Hodder, […], →OCLC, page 213:But one or two evil-disposed characters muttered they might be sure the lady had her own turn to serve, and they might be sure they wasn't "teaed and muffined and sandwiched for nothing!"
** 1897 January 7, “City’s Veteran Firemen. New Year Reception. The Rooms of the Association Filled with Guests. Reminiscences, Reunion, and Refreshments,”, in The Pittsfield Sun, volume 97, number 26, Pittsfield, Mass., page 7:The association of veteran firemen, which has a membership of 200, kept open house for New Year callers, and all comers were bountifully sandwiched and coffeed.
** 1917 November 11, Dumas Malone, “The Ring and the Red Triangle: How the Men Who Wear the New Insignia Go With the Army”, in The Macon Daily Telegraph, Macon, Ga., first section, article section “The Ever-Ready Hut”, page four:Here at Camp Wheeler we “coffeed” and “sandwiched” the drafted men when they came from Camp Gordon several weeks ago, and the men from Camp Pike more recently.
** 1929, Howard W[allace] Peak, A Ranger of Commerce or 52 Years on the Road, page 87:There we were met by enterprising citizens and coffeed and sandwiched by pretty girls.
** 1942 August 31, “Who Clipped the Soldiers’—Hair?”, in Harrisburg Telegraph, volume CXII, number 206, Harrisburg, Pa., second section, page 9:Five soldiers had been sandwiched and coffeed at the Elks canteen, were a little short of money, needed haircuts.
** 1953, [Irene Curzon, 2nd] Baroness Ravensdale, In Many Rhythms: An Autobiography, page 249:I clothed desperate families, and sandwiched and teaed many distracted souls.
** 1959 October 7, Charles House, “Charlie Pauses at 75-Mile Mark To Recount Latest Adventures”, in Appleton Post-Crescent, volume LI, number 88, Appleton-Neenah-Menasha, Wis., section “Coffee Break”, page A16:I write this on the kitchen table at the home of the kind Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Ebert, who sandwiched and coffee’d me.
** 1964 October 13, Gene Cowles, Valley Times, volume 27, number 246, San Fernando Valley, Calif., page 15:Mrs. Robert (Helen) Adickes, of Flintridge, mate of the chairman of the Pilots For Goldwater committee, was in there pitching as usual seeing that everyone was fed and coffeed or, in the case of the young colts and fillies, sandwiched and popped.
** 1975 October 14, Kathleen Merryman, “Freedom Train fires up parties”, in The Billings Gazette, 90th year, number 165, Billings, Mont., page 11-A:Hostesses like Laurie McCormack, who’s used to keeping politicians, press and businessmen coffeed and sandwiched on special visits to the train, sat back and let Jay Montague and other merchants reverse roles.
** 1976 August 28, Joan Flanagan, “cassidy’s mob”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 43,275, page 14:“In the daytimes, he fixes things for people,” I said, “and in return they keep him sandwiched and coffeed.”
* (intransitive, rare) To eat sandwiches.
** 1935 June 29, Ellen Snebley, “Teapot Tattle”, in Santa Ana Journal, volume 1, number 52, Santa Ana, Calif., page eight:Mr. and Mrs. Ted Craig (he speaker of the assembly) emerging from a popular drive-in after having sandwiched and coffeed . . .
** 1965, Thea Astley, The Slow Natives, page 196:He coffeed and sandwiched along the highway.
** 2006, Gary Zingher, “The Child as Everyday Explorer”, in Theme Play: Exciting Young Imaginations, Libraries Unlimited, →ISBN, page 95:The Red Knight and his squire might be sandwiching at the very next table.

#### Translations
### Adjective

sandwich (not comparable)
* (US) Of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

#### Usage notes

* The adjective sense is used primarily by restaurants specializing in barbecue, and does not imply that the meal includes an actual sandwich.

## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English sandwich.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sanvitsj/, [ˈsanˌʋid̥ɕ], [ˈsanˌwid̥ɕ], [ˈsanˌʋid̥s]

### Noun

sandwich c (singular definite sandwichen, plural indefinite sandwich or sandwicher)
* sandwich

#### Derived terms

* bøfsandwich
* flæskestegssandwich
* sandwichbar
* sandwichbrød
* sandwichfyld
* sandwichkonstruktion
* skinkesandwich
* tunsandwich

### References

* “sandwich” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English sandwich, after the Earl of Sandwich.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɛnd.ʋɪtʃ/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: sand‧wich

### Noun

sandwich m (plural sandwiches, diminutive sandwichje n)
* sandwich

#### Usage notes

* A sandwich is more commonly called a boterham (which may also denote a single slice of bread) or a broodje (which may also denote a bun or roll) in Dutch.

#### Derived terms

* sandwichman

## Finnish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English sandwich.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsændʋits/, [ˈs̠æn.dʋits̠]
* IPA: /ˈsændʋitʃ/, [ˈs̠æn.dʋit̪ʃ]
* Rhymes: -ændʋits
* Hyphenation: sand‧wich

### Noun

sandwich
* sandwich (dish, usually one made with two pieces of bread with a filling in between)
    Synonym: kerrosvoileipä
* (chiefly in compounds) sandwich (any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material)

#### Declension

Possessive forms of sandwich (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
sandwichini
sandwichini
accusative
nom.
sandwichini
sandwichini
gen.
sandwichini
genitive
sandwichini
sandwichieni
partitive
sandwichiäni
sandwichejäni
inessive
sandwichissäni
sandwicheissäni
elative
sandwichistäni
sandwicheistäni
illative
sandwichiini
sandwicheihini
adessive
sandwichilläni
sandwicheilläni
ablative
sandwichiltäni
sandwicheiltäni
allative
sandwichilleni
sandwicheilleni
essive
sandwichinäni
sandwicheinäni
translative
sandwichikseni
sandwicheikseni
abessive
sandwichittäni
sandwicheittäni
instructive
comitative
—sandwicheineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
sandwichisi
sandwichisi
accusative
nom.
sandwichisi
sandwichisi
gen.
sandwichisi
genitive
sandwichisi
sandwichiesi
partitive
sandwichiäsi
sandwichejäsi
inessive
sandwichissäsi
sandwicheissäsi
elative
sandwichistäsi
sandwicheistäsi
illative
sandwichiisi
sandwicheihisi
adessive
sandwichilläsi
sandwicheilläsi
ablative
sandwichiltäsi
sandwicheiltäsi
allative
sandwichillesi
sandwicheillesi
essive
sandwichinäsi
sandwicheinäsi
translative
sandwichiksesi
sandwicheiksesi
abessive
sandwichittäsi
sandwicheittäsi
instructive
comitative
—sandwicheinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
sandwichimme
sandwichimme
accusative
nom.
sandwichimme
sandwichimme
gen.
sandwichimme
genitive
sandwichimme
sandwichiemme
partitive
sandwichiämme
sandwichejämme
inessive
sandwichissämme
sandwicheissämme
elative
sandwichistämme
sandwicheistämme
illative
sandwichiimme
sandwicheihimme
adessive
sandwichillämme
sandwicheillämme
ablative
sandwichiltämme
sandwicheiltämme
allative
sandwichillemme
sandwicheillemme
essive
sandwichinämme
sandwicheinämme
translative
sandwichiksemme
sandwicheiksemme
abessive
sandwichittämme
sandwicheittämme
instructive
comitative
—sandwicheinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
sandwichinne
sandwichinne
accusative
nom.
sandwichinne
sandwichinne
gen.
sandwichinne
genitive
sandwichinne
sandwichienne
partitive
sandwichiänne
sandwichejänne
inessive
sandwichissänne
sandwicheissänne
elative
sandwichistänne
sandwicheistänne
illative
sandwichiinne
sandwicheihinne
adessive
sandwichillänne
sandwicheillänne
ablative
sandwichiltänne
sandwicheiltänne
allative
sandwichillenne
sandwicheillenne
essive
sandwichinänne
sandwicheinänne
translative
sandwichiksenne
sandwicheiksenne
abessive
sandwichittänne
sandwicheittänne
instructive
comitative
—sandwicheinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
sandwichinsä
sandwichinsä
accusative
nom.
sandwichinsä
sandwichinsä
gen.
sandwichinsä
genitive
sandwichinsä
sandwichiensä
partitive
sandwichiään sandwichiänsä
sandwichejään sandwichejänsä
inessive
sandwichissään sandwichissänsä
sandwicheissään sandwicheissänsä
elative
sandwichistään sandwichistänsä
sandwicheistään sandwicheistänsä
illative
sandwichiinsä
sandwicheihinsä
adessive
sandwichillään sandwichillänsä
sandwicheillään sandwicheillänsä
ablative
sandwichiltään sandwichiltänsä
sandwicheiltään sandwicheiltänsä
allative
sandwichilleen sandwichillensä
sandwicheilleen sandwicheillensä
essive
sandwichinään sandwichinänsä
sandwicheinään sandwicheinänsä
translative
sandwichikseen sandwichiksensä
sandwicheikseen sandwicheiksensä
abessive
sandwichittään sandwichittänsä
sandwicheittään sandwicheittänsä
instructive
comitative
—sandwicheineen sandwicheinensä :

#### Derived terms

* (dish): sänkkäri
* (layered material): sandwich-elementti, sandwich-rakenne

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English sandwich.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɑ̃.dwiʃ/, /sɑ̃.dwitʃ/
* Audio:(file)
* (Quebec, Louisiana) IPA: /san.dwitʃ/

### Noun

sandwich m (plural sandwichs or sandwiches)
* sandwich (food)
    Hyponyms: jambon beurre, panini, tacos français

#### Usage notes

* French does not follow the English rule of adding es to nouns ending in the sound /tʃ/. Since the final /s/ is not pronounced in the plural, there is no difficulty in pronouncing the plural formed by adding s rather than es.

#### Derived terms

* sandwicherie
* croissandwich
* prendre en sandwich
* sandwich grec

#### Descendants

* → Persian: ساندویچ (sândevič)

### Further reading

* “sandwich”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English sandwich.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɛn.dwit͡ʃ/
* Rhymes: -ɛndwitʃ

### Noun

sandwich m (invariable)
* sandwich

#### Derived terms

* sandwicheria f

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From English sandwich.

### Noun

sandwich m (definite singular sandwichen, indefinite plural sandwicher, definite plural sandwichene)
* a sandwich

### References

* “sandwich” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
* “sandwich” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From English sandwich, supposedly named for its inventor, the Earl of Sandwich.

### Noun

sandwich m (definite singular sandwichen, indefinite plural sandwichar, definite plural sandwichane)
* a sandwich

### References

* “sandwich” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Occitan
### Alternative forms

* sandoich (Limousin, Provençal)

### Noun

sandwich m (plural sandwiches) (Languedoc)
* sandwich
    Synonyms: entrelesca, entrepan

#### Derived terms

* sandwichariá

#### See also

* crostet

### Further reading

Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 622.

## Spanish
### Noun

sandwich m (plural sandwiches)
* Misspelling of sándwich.