samwich

English

Noun

samwich (plural samwiches)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of sandwich.
    • [1988 August 5, Max Jacobson, “Restaurants: The Concept Is Hokey, but We’re Talking Value Here”, in Los Angeles Times‎[1], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 3 November 2025:
      Waitresses wear little name tags carved out of wood, and the menu is littered with Southern aphorisms (“it ain’t what a man don’t know that hurts him, it’s what he knows that ain’t so”) and deliberately kittenish misspellings (“kuntry,” “samwich,” “shef”).]
    • 1993 June 30, Laura Cunningham, “Confessions of a Passionate Picnicker”, in The New York Times‎[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 May 2015:
      Within the red-and-white checkered world, we munched prosaic foods, what I called "samwiches," and nibbled from little baggies of washed fruit and crushed cookies. […] Even in the Bronx, it seemed likely that nymphs and naiads were afoot. Inspired, I might leap up to do a "dance of the samwich," a celebration of grape jelly that was a bit Dionysian. […] When I was 8 and she was 43, we had a picnic in the shadowed Ramble of Central Park. We did not know it was our last. We shared a final "samwich."
    • 2002 May 23, Michael Morrissey, “Getting Back to Business: [Mike] Piazza & Co. Look to Move On”, in New York Post‎[3], New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 October 2013:
      Piazza seemed relaxed when he arrived at the ballpark early yesterday, carting in boxes of hoagies and multiple pizzas for his teammates. “I’ve been doing it for a few years,” said Piazza, who was born in nearby Norristown, PA, and graduated from Phoenixville (PA) High School. “I missed it one day and [ex-Met] Lenny Harris said, ‘Where’s them samwiches?’ / “The guys love them.”
    • 2007 July 10, J. G. Martinson, chapter 12, in Deception’s Full Circle, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 121:
      Naddie and I went to the park. We took a picnic basket and had lunch. I ate a peanut butter and jam samwich.
    • 2022 August 18, Nick Bilton, “The Ballad of Razzlekhan and Dutch, Bitcoin’s Bonnie and Clyde”, in Radhika Jones, editor, Vanity Fair‎[4], New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 August 2022:
      “I’M A MOTHER FUCKIN’ BAD BITCH; GO ON, MAKE ME A SAMWICH, YOU ANNOYING, LIKE VAG ITCH, SO LAME, IT’S FUCKIN’ TRAGIC… BAD BITCH, BAD BITCH.”
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