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chicken sandwich

chicken sandwich

14 1.0
A sandwich with cooked chicken between slices of bread
  • noun
  • /ˈtʃɪkɪn ˈsænwɪtʃ/
translation icon : sándwich de pollo
  • For lunch, she ordered a chicken sandwich along with a side salad.
  • grilled chicken sandwich
  • fried chicken sandwich
  • spicy chicken sandwich

So it's the Popeye's chicken sandwich going in.

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Examples

Synonyms

sandwich
vschicken sandwich
800 1.0

Two slices of bread with food like meat or cheese between them for a meal

is limited to fillings made from cooked bird meat rather than any filling

How Filling

meat pie
5 1.0
burger
406 1.0
chicken sandwich
14 1.0
sandwich
800 1.0
finger food
7 1.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

chicken + sandwich

The meaning 'a sandwich consisting of chicken' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'chicken' (meat) with 'sandwich' (filling between bread). This noun-noun compounding is literal and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the MWE.

Etymology

Chicken sandwich comes from the simple image of putting chicken between two pieces of bread to make a sandwich you can hold and eat with your hands. So it literally means 'a sandwich with chicken'.