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Sandwich vs Buttie - What's the difference?

sandwich | buttie |

As nouns the difference between sandwich and buttie

is that sandwich is sandwich while buttie is .

sandwich

English

(wikipedia sandwich) (Structured composite sandwich)

Noun

(es)
  • A dish or foodstuff where two or more slices of bread serve as the wrapper or container of some other food.
  • (by extension) Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material.

    • Synonyms

    * See

    Hyponyms

    * hamburger, burger * -burger * patty melt

    Derived terms

    {{der3, club sandwich , Dagwood sandwich , Dutch sandwich , knuckle sandwich , open sandwich , sandwich spread , sandwich board , sandwichable , sandwichy , soup sandwich}}

    Descendants

    * Arabic: * Catalan: (l) * Chinese: *: Mandarin: * Czech: * Danish: (l) * Dutch: (l) * English: (l) (eye dialect) * Esperanto: * French: (l) *: Norman French: (l) * German: (l) * Greek: * Hawaiian: (l) * Hindi: * Hungarian: (l) * Japanese: * Jèrriais: (l) * Korean: * Marshallese: * Norwegian: (l) * Persian: * Portuguese: (Brazil), (l) (Portugal) * Romanian: * Russian: * Serbo-Croatian: *: Cyrillic: *: Roman: * Sinhalese: * Slovene: * Spanish: * Swedish: (l) * Turkish: * Urdu: * Vietnamese: * Volapük:

    Verb

    (es)
  • To place one item between two other, usually flat, items
  • (figuratively) To put or set something between two others, in time.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=April 11 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley. }}

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (US) Of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner.

    • Usage notes

    * The adjective sense is used primarily by restaurants specializing in barbeque, and does not imply that the meal includes an actual sandwich. English eponyms English refractory feminine rhymes ----

    buttie

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • References

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