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Sangria vs Sanger - What's the difference?

sangria | sanger |

As nouns the difference between sangria and sanger

is that sangria is a cold drink, originating in spain, consisting of red or white wine, brandy or sherry, fruit juice, sugar and soda water and garnished with orange and other fruit while sanger is ), a tall bush with reddish branches.

sangria

English

(wikipedia sangria)

Noun

  • A cold drink, originating in Spain, consisting of red or white wine, brandy or sherry, fruit juice, sugar and soda water and garnished with orange and other fruit.

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    sanger

    English

    Etymology 1

    Diminutive of sandwich; corruption of the earlier diminutive sango. Australian from 1960s.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia, informal, colloquial) A sandwich.
  • * 1996 , , 2006, page 140,
    • I popped the last of the strawberry sangers into my mouth, craned my neck over the bureaucrat?s gelati-hued shoulder and feasted my eyes.
  • * 2005 , R. T. Stone, The Journals: Into the Gulf , Book 2, page 459,
    • Allison did most of the talking telling Sara of her victory, of meeting Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova—who won the Family Circle Open—of rubbing the elbows with the Australian elite, and making sangers (sandwiches) for broken families in Brisbane.
  • * 2009 , Justine Vaisutis, Australia , Lonely Planet, page 94,
    • Eat' Rock oysters, rock lobsters, yabbies and prawns; also Turkish bread ‘' sangers ’ and Tim Tam shooters
  • * 2009 , Central Australia: Adelaide to Darwin , page 59,
    • Winning pub-grub at this enduring pub boozer: steak sangers , veggie lasagne, lamb-shank pie, king-prawn salad and blueberry pancakes.
    Synonyms
    * sango (qualifier) * sarnie (qualifier)

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1895 , United States Cavalry Association, Journal of the United States Cavalry Association , Volume 8, page 223,
    • The enemy had a line of sangers' along the far edge of nullah right across the valley, with ' sangers at intervals up the steep mountains on either side into the snows, and occupied, as far as we could guess, by some 2,000 men.
  • * 1902 , Great Britain House of Commons, Sessional Papers , Volume 69, page 64,
    • At 4.30 a.m., under cover of a mist in the donga, the Boers made a very severe attack on the north and west of my position, the brunt of the attack fell on two sangers' held by the Durham Company of Artillery; the Boers broke through the wire and got to within 20 yards of those ' sangers , but they both gallantly held their own and I, with the aid of the Maxim, was able to repulse the attack.
  • * 1976 , Byron Farwell, The Great Boer War , page 93,
    • the Boer marksmen leaned over their sangers and fired on the helmeted heads below them.

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