different between sammie vs samfie

English

Etymology

Abbreviation of sandwich (pronounced "sammich") +? -ie (colloquial/diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æmi

Noun

sammie (plural sammies)

1. (informal) A sandwich.

Synonyms

• (Australia, Ireland, informal) sambo
• (Australia, informal) sammo, sanger, sango
• (UK, informal) sarnie

Anagrams

• Ammies, mamsie

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sæm?fa?/
• Hyphenation: sam?fie

Adjective

samfie (comparative more samfie, superlative most samfie)

1. (Jamaican) Pertaining to a scammer or a con artist.

Noun

samfie (plural samfies)

1. (Jamaican) A confidence trickster, especially one who pretends to have supernatural powers.
2. (Jamaican) trickery

References

• OED (online) 2007

Jamaican Creole

Alternative forms

• sam fie, samfi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sam?fa?/
• Hyphenation: sam?fie

Noun

samfie (plural: samfie dem, quantified: samfie)

1. con artist, con man, scammer, swindler, trickster

   Synonym: ginnal

References

• Richard Allsopp (main editor), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, 2003 (reprint by The University of the West Indies Press, originally 1996 by Oxford University Press), ISBN 9789766401450 (originally ISBN-10: 976-640-145-4), page 486