Meaning

2 senses
  1. (UK, informal)A sandwich.

    Hello my flower, shall I fix up a cheese sarnie for you?

  2. (UK)The Sandwich tern.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. I haven't finished my sarnie yet.

    deIch bin noch nicht mit meiner Stulle fertig.

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  2. Tom's mum makes him a sarnie every morning.

    deToms Mama schmiert ihm jeden Morgen eine Stulle.

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Origin

From sarn- (“perhaps from a dialectal pronunciation of the first syllable of sandwich”) +

From sarn- (“perhaps from a dialectal pronunciation of the first syllable of sandwich”) + -ie. Alternatively, perhaps a misreading or an intentional dissimilation of samie (i.e. sammie), where the 'm' is mistaken for or replaced with 'rn'.

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Forms

plural: sarnies

Synonyms

5 synonyms
sandwich:sangosarmiesambobuttysammie sanger

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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