sandwichman
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Noun edit
sandwichman (plural sandwichmen)
- A man who wears a sandwich board.
- 1899, Harold Frederic, The Marketplace:
- "There came along in the gutter a sandwich-man. […] Now I read what was on his boards. […] "
- 1904, Gideon Wurdz, The Foolish Dictionary:
- INDORSE To write on the back of; the best indorsed man in town being the Sandwich-Man.
- 1911, Arnold Bennett, The Card:
- 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.
Descendants edit
- → Japanese: サンドイッチマン (sandoitchiman)
Translations edit
man who wears a sandwich board
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from English sandwichman. Equivalent to sandwich (“sandwich”) + man (“man”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sandwichman m (plural sandwichmannen, diminutive sandwichmannetje n)
- sandwichman
- Vlak bij de finish stond een bijna naakte, bebaarde sandwichman, op zijn bord stond "Het einde is nabij".
- A nearly naked, bearded sandwichman stood close to the finish, on his sign was written "The end is near".