breadwich

noun

Etymology

Formed by rebracketing. The bread substitute was called "zucchini bread" or "pickle bread"; this was then blended with the word sandwich; then the result (e.g. "zucchini breadwich") was reanalysed as a "breadwich" of the zucchini kind. Compare burger from hamburger.

Definitions

  1. A kind of sandwich using a baked mixture of cheese and pickles or zucchini instead of…

    A kind of sandwich using a baked mixture of cheese and pickles or zucchini instead of bread.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for breadwich. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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