sarnie
See also: sarnię
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Etymology edit
sarn- (“perhaps from a dialectal pronunciation of the first syllable of sandwich”) + -ie.
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Noun edit
sarnie (plural sarnies)
- (British, informal) A sandwich.
- Hello my flower, shall I fix up a cheese sarnie for you?
- 1972, “Thick As A Brick”, Ian Anderson (lyrics), performed by Jethro Tull:
- With their jock-straps pinching, they slouch to attention
While queueing for sarnies at the office canteen.
- 2012, Tim Moore, You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Around Unloved Britain, Vintage, →ISBN, page 7:
- In fact no one was playing bingo, 10p or otherwise. Nor had the patrons been enticed by the complimentary shrink-wrapped sarnies and packets of cheese-and-onion on offer in the roped-off ‘Over 18s VIP area’, with its £500-jackpot fruit machines.
- 2021 September 22, Stephen Roberts, “The writings on the wall...”, in RAIL, number 940, page 74:
- Just like Marple, there's a plaque at the London terminus [Paddington] commemorating a fictional character - a polite, friendly little bear from darkest Peru who has a penchant for marmalade sarnies.
- (UK, birdwatching) The Sandwich tern.
Synonyms edit
- (sandwich): sammie (North America, informal) sanger (AU, informal), sango (AU, informal), sarmie (RSA, informal), sambo (Ireland, AU, informal), butty
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sarnie f
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sarnie
- inflection of sarni: