English

Alternative forms

• sandwich-man
• 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.

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Pronunciation

Etymology

sandwich ‎(“sandwich”) +‎ man ‎(“man”)

Noun

sandwichman f ‎(plural sandwichmannen, diminutive sandwichmannetje n)

1. sandwichman