sandwichman

English

Alternative forms
  • sandwich-man
  • sandwich man

Etymology

sandwich +‎ -man

Noun

sandwichman (plural sandwichmen)

  1. 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.

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

sandwich (“sandwich”) +‎ man (“man”)

Pronunciation
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Noun

sandwichman f (plural sandwichmannen, diminutive sandwichmannetje n)

  1. sandwichman
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