Dagwood sandwich

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English

A Dagwood sandwich

Alternative forms

dagwood sandwich

Etymology

Named after American comic strip character Dagwood Bumstead, a character in the American comic strip Blondie.

Noun

Dagwood sandwich (plural Dagwood sandwiches)

(informal) An exceptionally thick sandwich made with numerous layers of various meats, cheeses, vegetables, and condiments.
- 1980, Arthur Asa Berger, Television As An instrument of Terror, →ISBN, page 76:
  The kind of sandwich he made famous, the Dagwood sandwich, is a hodgepodge of leftovers in the refrigerator all wedged in between two slices of bread.
- 1999 September 7, Tom Zeller, “Nutrition: When Refrigerator Raiders Lose Control”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 April 2014:
  Everyone gets the late-night munchies now and then, whether for rocky road ice cream or a Dagwood sandwich of salami, pickles and deli Swiss on rye.
- 2012 November 1, Brian Truitt, “Dagwood runs for president in longtime 'Blondie' strip”, in USA Today, retrieved 19 April 2014:
  And who wouldn't like to think of the Dagwood sandwich somewhere on the White House menu?
(figuratively, by extension) A thick stack of flat objects or a complicated melange of diverse components or ingredients.
- 1956 February 27, “Medicine: Don't-Give-a-Damn Pills”, in Time, retrieved 19 April 2014:
  As one of Groucho Marx's writers told it: an unemployed actor was interrupted at breakfast by his wife carrying a Dagwood sandwich of unpaid bills.
- 1984 August 28, Erik Sandberg-Diment, “Personal Computers: Awkward Junior Has Growing Pains”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 April 2014:
  [T]o use the full 512K theoretically available, one will have a computer carrying a Dagwood sandwich of expansion attachments on one of its sides.
- 2013 December 18, Jim Geraghty, “The Week So Far: A Dagwood Sandwich of Bad News for Obamacare”, in National Review Online, retrieved 19 April 2014:
  Today’s Morning Jolt is just a Dagwood sandwich of bad news for Obamacare, piled higher and higher.

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Descendants

French: dagwood
- French: quart-dagwood, quart de dagwood
- French: demi-dagwood

Translations

exceptionally thick sandwich

French: dagwood
Swedish: Dagobertmacka c, Dagobertsmörgås c

References

“Dagwood sandwich”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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