sandwich

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: Sand=wich

CIDE DICTIONARY

sandwich, n. [Named from the Earl of Sandwich.].

 Two pieces of bread and butter with a thin slice of meat, cheese, or the like, between them.  [1913 Webster]

sandwich, v. t. 

 To make into a sandwich; also, figuratively, to insert between portions of something dissimilar; to form of alternate parts or things, or alternating layers of a different nature; to interlard.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sandwich, n. & v.
--n.
1 two or more slices of usu. buttered bread with a filling of meat, cheese, etc., between them.
2 a cake of two or more layers with jam or cream between (bake a sponge sandwich).
--v.tr.
1 put (a thing, statement, etc.) between two of another character.
2 squeeze in between others (sat sandwiched in the middle).

Idiom

sandwich-board one of two advertisement boards carried by a sandwich-man. sandwich course a course of training with alternate periods of practical experience and theoretical instruction. sandwich-man (pl. -men) a man who walks the streets with sandwich-boards hanging before and behind.

Etymology

4th Earl of Sandwich, Engl. nobleman d. 1792, said to have eaten food in this form so as not to leave the gaming-table

THESAURUS

sandwich

BLT, Dagwood sandwich, Sloppy Joe, Swiss cheese sandwich, bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich, canape, cheeseburger, corned beef sandwich, double-decker sandwich, drag in, edge in, egg salad sandwich, foist in, fudge in, grilled cheese sandwich, grinder, ham sandwich, hamburger, hoagy, hot dog, implant in, inject in, insert in, insinuate in, intercalate, interjaculate, interject, interpolate, interpose, intervene, introduce in, intrude, lug in, pastrami sandwich, poor boy, put between, run in, smuggle in, squeeze in, submarine sandwich, throw in, thrust in, tuna salad sandwich, tunaburger, wedge in, work in, worm in