western sandwich
- noun
- US
:
sándwich occidental
- The western sandwich was packed with ham, onions, and green peppers.
Examples
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I ordered a western sandwich for breakfast at the diner.
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He made a western sandwich using leftover omelet from yesterday.
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I love a western sandwich for breakfast.
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Can you make me a western sandwich?
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I ordered a western sandwich for breakfast at the diner.
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The western sandwich was packed with ham, onions, and green peppers.
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He made a western sandwich using leftover omelet from yesterday.
Synonyms
800
1.0
Two slices of bread with food like meat or cheese between them for a meal
10
5.2
A sandwich made with an omelet and fillings like ham, onion, and green pepper
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun is compositionally built from 'western' + 'sandwich', so a learner who knows both words will correctly infer it is a type of sandwich associated with a 'western' style. However, the specific culinary sense of 'Western' (i.e. a sandwich made with a Western/Denver omelet: eggs with ham, onions, peppers) is a lexicalized food label not directly predictable from the geographic sense of 'western', so the exact ingredients or reference may not be inferable without exposure. Because the overall category (a sandwich of a Western omelet) is partially derivable but requires cultural/lexical knowledge for full interpretation, this is best classed as semi-transparent.
Etymology
Western sandwich may come from the breakfast dish called the western omelet, an omelet with ham, onions, and peppers. People started putting that western omelet between slices of bread, so the name came to mean 'a sandwich made with a western omelet'.