sango

A sandwich.

Noun Australia, colloquial

  1. A sandwich.

Origin

Abbreviation of sandwich (pronounced sangwich) + -o (colloquialising suffix). Australian from 1940s.

Forms

sangos sangoes

Synonyms

sambo sammie sammo sanger sarnie

Noun UK

  1. A rudimentary wooden bridge in India.
    • 1824, Alexander Gerard, Journal of an Excursion through the Himalayah Mountains, from Shipke to the Frontiers of Chinese Tartary, David Brewster (editor), The Edinburgh Journal of Science, Volume 1: April—October, page...
    • Four large mountain torrents, the Dangalee, Dubrane, Loarnad, and Rindee Gadh, join the Ganges from the left bank, and have to be crossed by sangos. - 1865, Henry Astbury Leveson, The Hunting Grounds of the Old World,...

Forms

sangos