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sarnie

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Scrabble points
6
Words With Friends
7
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈsɑːni/

Definition of sarnie

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (British, informal)A sandwich.
    “Hello my flower, shall I fix up a cheese sarnie for you?”
    “With their jock-straps pinching, they slouch to attention While queueing for sarnies at the office canteen.”
    “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.”
    “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.”
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noun

  1. (British, informal)A sandwich.
    “Hello my flower, shall I fix up a cheese sarnie for you?”
    “With their jock-straps pinching, they slouch to attention While queueing for sarnies at the office canteen.”
    “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.”
    “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.”
  2. (UK)The Sandwich tern.

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Etymology

From sarn- (“perhaps from a dialectal pronunciation of the first syllable of sandwich”) + -ie. Alternatively, perhaps a misreading or an intentional dissimilation of samie (i.e. sammie), where the 'm' is mistaken for or replaced with 'rn'.

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