sanger
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/ˈsæŋə/
Definition of sanger
8 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(Australia, colloquial, informal)A sandwich.
“[…]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.”
“[…]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.”
“Eat Rock oysters, rock lobsters, yabbies and prawns; also Turkish bread ‘sangers’ and Tim Tam shooters”
“Winning pub-grub at this enduring pub boozer: steak sangers, veggie lasagne, lamb-shank pie, king-prawn salad and blueberry pancakes.”
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noun
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(Australia, colloquial, informal)A sandwich.
“[…]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.”
“[…]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.”
“Eat Rock oysters, rock lobsters, yabbies and prawns; also Turkish bread ‘sangers’ and Tim Tam shooters”
“Winning pub-grub at this enduring pub boozer: steak sangers, veggie lasagne, lamb-shank pie, king-prawn salad and blueberry pancakes.”
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(alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of sangar.
“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.”
“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.”
“[…]the Boer marksmen leaned over their sangers and fired on the helmeted heads below them.”
name
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A surname originating as an occupation.
“Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger is alleging that the online encyclopedia has a left-leaning bias and “a lot of problems,” and recently released a nine-point plan to fix it.”
- A place in the United States:
- A place in the United States:
- A place in the United States:
- A place in the United States:
- A locality in the Federation council area, southern New South Wales, Australia.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Abbreviation of sandwich (pronounced sangwich) + -er (colloquialising suffix). Australian from 1960s.
Words you can make from sanger
99 playable · top: ANGERS (7 pts)
Best play angers 7 points6-letter words
1 word5-letter words
17 words4-letter words
37 words- AGER 5 pts
- AGES 5 pts
- AREG 5 pts
- ENGS 5 pts
- ERGS 5 pts
- GAEN 5 pts
- GAES 5 pts
- GANE 5 pts
- GARS 5 pts
- GEAN 5 pts
- GEAR 5 pts
- GENS 5 pts
- GNAR 5 pts
- GRAN 5 pts
- NAGS 5 pts
- NEGS 5 pts
- RAGE 5 pts
- RAGS 5 pts
- RANG 5 pts
- REGS 5 pts
- SAGE 5 pts
- SANG 5 pts
- SNAG 5 pts
- ANES 4 pts
- ARES 4 pts
- ARSE 4 pts
- EARN 4 pts
- EARS 4 pts
- ERAS 4 pts
- ERNS 4 pts
- NAES 4 pts
- NARE 4 pts
- NEAR 4 pts
- RASE 4 pts
- SANE 4 pts
- SEAR 4 pts
- SERA 4 pts
3-letter words
32 words- AGE 4 pts
- AGS 4 pts
- ENG 4 pts
- ERG 4 pts
- GAE 4 pts
- GAN 4 pts
- GAR 4 pts
- GAS 4 pts
- GEN 4 pts
- NAG 4 pts
- NEG 4 pts
- RAG 4 pts
- REG 4 pts
- SAG 4 pts
- SEG 4 pts
- ANE 3 pts
- ARE 3 pts
- ARS 3 pts
- EAR 3 pts
- ENS 3 pts
- ERA 3 pts
- ERN 3 pts
- ERS 3 pts
- NAE 3 pts
- RAN 3 pts
- RAS 3 pts
- RES 3 pts
- SAE 3 pts
- SAN 3 pts
- SEA 3 pts
- SEN 3 pts
- SER 3 pts
2-letter words
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