sarmie, noun

/ˈsɑːmi/
Forms:
Also saamie, sarmy.
Origin:
Northern English, South African EnglishShow more Perhaps adaptation of Northern English dialect sarnie, representing local pronunciation of the first element of sandwich; in South African English sandwich is often pronounced ‘samwidge’.
colloquial
Especially in the language of children: a sandwich.
1970 M. Burger Informant, Pietersburg (now Polokwane)I forgot to make sarmies for school.
1970 M.C. Duffy Informant, Durban, KwaZulu-NatalThe children swop sarmies at break.
1975 ‘Blossom’ in Darling 12 Mar.A delicacy known as the chip butty (sort of sarmy with chips in the middle).
1975 ‘Blossom’ in Darling 9 Apr. 95Giant cooler-bags full of beer, cold drinks, packets of biltong and home-made salami sarmies like you never tasted.
1978 J. Hobbs Darling Blossom 170Under the gumtree in the playground..opsing each others’ sarmies. I crave Lorna’s marmite and she goes for my fish paste. [Source Note: Opsing — swopping.]
1979 Sunday Times 23 Sept. (Mag. Sect.) 31She’s got the ladies in the show bringing in meals to eat between performances so they don’t have to send out for boring old toasted saamies.
1986 V. Cooke et al. in S. Gray Market Plays 45Every time I try to touch you — you just close off or you — you offer me sarmies or coffee or something.
1989 T. Botha in Style June 111The soulfood of the long-distance driver. The valium of the N1. Padkos. Sarmies, biltong, beers, Cokes, chips, Nux bars and indigestion.
1990 M. Van Biljon in Your Family Oct. 178You must admit there’s something about a soggy tomato sarmie that has no equal in haute cuisine.
1991 E. Williams Informant, Cape Town, Western CapeJonathan’s Ma makes super sarmies, you know, sandwiches with polony and tomato sauce and pickles and stuff like that.
1993 L. Nicholls in Natal Mercury 18 Mar. (Woman’s Weekly) 1The ever-starving ‘hostels’ — the farm children who were the rubbish dump for spoilt day-pupils who didn’t like their ‘sarmies’.
a sandwich.
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