sandwich

He laid out a linen tablecloth and a few sandwichs from some bread, dressing, and beef.

2002, Serena Carrington, Avalon, Writers Club Press, page 92:

And the only "care" I could offer was egg sandwichs and Lilly's unfaltering attention.

2012, Allie McNeil, Watergate Summer, AuthorHouse, page 160:

The most famous place in Copenhagen, Ida Davidsen, has a menu of 190 different kinds of open sandwich.

2020 January 21, Brontë Aurell, The Little Book of Scandi Living, White Lion Publishing, →ISBN, page 51:

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.

(by extension) Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material.

[…] our local agricultural fair in Warwickshire even has a category for Victoria sandwiches baked by male bakers.

2016, Alysa Levene, Cake: A Slice of History:

We have, and not so very long ago, seen women employed as 'sandwiches'.

Pall Mall Gazette, quoted in 2004, Chris Jenks, Urban Culture, page 129

(archaic) A sandwichman (one who wears a sandwich board).

en-noun

sandwich (plural sandwiches or (rare) sandwichs)

sandwiches (plural)
sandwichs (plural rare)
sammich (alternative slang)
Sandwich (alternative obsolete)

desc

سَانْدَوِيتْش

→ 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

→ 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:

→ Norwegian Bokmål: sandwich

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: 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

qualifier

→ Spanish: sándwich, sánduche (Colombia, Ecuador, Puerto Rico, Venezuela), sánguche (Argentina, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela)

→ Swedish: sandwich

desc

→ Thai: แซนด์วิช (sɛɛn-wít)

→ Thai: แซนด์วิช (sɛɛn-wít)

→ Tibetan: སན་ཊ་ཝིཆི (san ṭa wichi)

→ Turkish: sandviç

→ Urdu: سینڈوچ (saiṇḍavic)

→ Vietnamese: xăng duych

→ Volapük: sändvig

[ˈsæmˌwɪt͡ʃ]

[ˈsæ̃ˌwɪt͡ʃ]

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


sandwich

We saw a few Gresley Moguls on goods, as a limited amount of freight traffic was sandwiched in even on this busy day.

1951 January, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Essex and Hertfordshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 46:

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.

1959 May, William Jones, John Hodge, “Resorts for Railfans - 28: Cardiff, Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 265:

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.

2021 June 14, Scott Mullen, “Scotland 0-2 Czech Republic”, in BBC Sport:

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.

2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 57:

(transitive) To place (an item) physically between two other, usually flat, items.

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.

1988, Cynthia Solomon, Computer Environments for Children, page 94:

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.

2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport:

(transitive, figuratively) To put or set between two other events in time.

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

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!"

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:

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.

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:

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.

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:

There we were met by enterprising citizens and coffeed and sandwiched by pretty girls.

1929, Howard W[allace] Peak, A Ranger of Commerce or 52 Years on the Road, page 87:

Five soldiers had been sandwiched and coffeed at the Elks canteen, were a little short of money, needed haircuts.

1942 August 31, “Who Clipped the Soldiers’—Hair?”, in Harrisburg Telegraph, volume CXII, number 206, Harrisburg, Pa., second section, page 9:

I clothed desperate families, and sandwiched and teaed many distracted souls.

1953, [Irene Curzon, 2nd] Baroness Ravensdale, In Many Rhythms: An Autobiography, page 249:

I write this on the kitchen table at the home of the kind Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Ebert, who sandwiched and coffee’d me.

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:

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.

1964 October 13, Gene Cowles, Valley Times, volume 27, number 246, San Fernando Valley, Calif., page 15:

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.

1975 October 14, Kathleen Merryman, “Freedom Train fires up parties”, in The Billings Gazette, 90th year, number 165, Billings, Mont., page 11-A:

“In the daytimes, he fixes things for people,” I said, “and in return they keep him sandwiched and coffeed.”

1976 August 28, Joan Flanagan, “cassidy’s mob”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 43,275, page 14:

(transitive, informal) To feed sandwiches to.

Mr. and Mrs. Ted Craig (he^([sic]) speaker of the assembly) emerging from a popular drive-in after having sandwiched and coffeed . . .

1935 June 29, Ellen Snebley, “Teapot Tattle”, in Santa Ana Journal, volume 1, number 52, Santa Ana, Calif., page eight:

He coffeed and sandwiched along the highway.

1965, Thea Astley, The Slow Natives, page 196:

The Red Knight and his squire might be sandwiching at the very next table.

2006, Gary Zingher, “The Child as Everyday Explorer”, in Theme Play: Exciting Young Imaginations, Libraries Unlimited, →ISBN, page 95:

en-verb

sandwich (third-person singular simple present sandwiches, present participle sandwiching, simple past and past participle sandwiched)

sandwiches (present singular third-person)
sandwiching (participle present)
sandwiched (participle past)
sandwiched (past)
sammich (alternative slang)
Sandwich (alternative obsolete)

kerrostaa

to place one item between two other, usually flat, items

[ˈsæmˌwɪt͡ʃ]

[ˈsæ̃ˌwɪt͡ʃ]


sandwich

(US) Of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner.

[ˈsæmˌwɪt͡ʃ]

[ˈsæ̃ˌwɪt͡ʃ]

sammich (alternative slang)
Sandwich (alternative obsolete)