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sandwichman en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English sandwich (board) Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Middle English man Middle English -man English -man English sandwichman From sandwich (board) + -man.

Meanings

1. A man who wears a sandwich board.
   • 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. 1911, Arnold Bennett, The Card:
   • "There came along in the gutter a sandwich-man. […] Now I read what was on his boards. […]" 1899, Harold Frederic, The Marketplace:
   • INDORSE To write on the back of; the best indorsed man in town being the Sandwich-Man. 1904, Gideon Wurdz, The Foolish Dictionary:

Forms

Descendants

サンドイッチマン

Translations (5)

pl sandwichman (man who wears a sandwich board) · hu szendvicsember (man who wears a sandwich board) · ja サンドイッチマン (man who wears a sandwich board) · nl sandwichman (man who wears a sandwich board) · da sandwichmand (man who wears a sandwich board)