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Dagwood sandwich en · NOUN

Etymology

Named after American comic strip character Dagwood Bumstead, a character in the American comic strip Blondie.

Meanings

1. (informal) An exceptionally thick sandwich made with numerous layers of various meats, cheeses, vegetables, and condiments.
   • The kind of sandwich he made famous, the Dagwood sandwich, is a hodgepodge of leftovers in the refrigerator all wedged in between two slices of bread. 1980, Arthur Asa Berger, Television As An instrument of Terror, →ISBN, page 76:
   • And who wouldn't like to think of the Dagwood sandwich somewhere on the White House menu? 2012 November 1, Brian Truitt, “Dagwood runs for president in longtime 'Blondie' strip”, in USA Today, retrieved 19 Apr 2014:
   • Everyone gets the late-night munchies now and then, whether for rocky road ice cream or a Dagwood sandwich of salami, pickles and deli Swiss on rye. 1999 September 7, Tom Zeller, “Nutrition: When Refrigerator Raiders Lose Control”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 Apr 2014:
2. (broadly, figuratively) A thick stack of flat objects or a complicated melange of diverse components or ingredients.
   • [T]o use the full 512K theoretically available, one will have a computer carrying a Dagwood sandwich of expansion attachments on one of its sides. 1984 August 28, Erik Sandberg-Diment, “Personal Computers: Awkward Junior Has Growing Pains”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 Apr 2014:
   • As one of Groucho Marx's writers told it: an unemployed actor was interrupted at breakfast by his wife carrying a Dagwood sandwich of unpaid bills. 1956 February 27, “Medicine: Don't-Give-a-Damn Pills”, in Time, retrieved 19 Apr 2014:
   • Today’s Morning Jolt is just a Dagwood sandwich of bad news for Obamacare, piled higher and higher. 2013 December 18, Jim Geraghty, “The Week So Far: A Dagwood Sandwich of Bad News for Obamacare”, in National Review Online, retrieved 19 Apr 2014:

Forms

Deriveds

Dag sandwich · Dagwood · Dag · dag sandwich · dag · half dagwood · dagwood · quarter dagwood

Descendants

dagwood

Synonyms

dagwood · dag sandwich · Dag · Dag sandwich · dag · Dagwood

Translations (3)

sv Dagobertsmörgås (exceptionally thick sandwich) · sv Dagobertmacka (exceptionally thick sandwich) · fr dagwood (exceptionally thick sandwich)

wikipedia: en:Blondie (comic strip)