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hoagy

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hoa⋅gy

[hoh-gee]
–noun, plural -gies. New Jersey and Pennsylvania (chiefly Philadelphia).
a hero sandwich.
Also, hoagie.


Origin:
1965–70, Americanism; a number of anecdotal hypotheses have been advanced as to the orig. of the word, most claiming it to be derivative of hog, either in reference to pork as an ingredient, or as an epithet for a person capable of eating such a sandwich, or alluding to Hog Island, an industrial and shipping area of South Philadelphia; but corroborating evidence is lacking; see -ie


See hero sandwich.

Car⋅mi⋅chael

[kahr-mahy-kuhl]
–noun
1. Hoag⋅land Howard [hohg-luhnd] , (“Hoagy”), 1899–1981, U.S. songwriter and musician.
2. Stoke⋅ly [stohk-lee] , (Kwame Ture), 1941–1998, U.S. civil-rights leader, born in Trinidad: chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1966–67.
3. a town in central California, near Sacramento. 43,108.
hoa·gie also hoa·gy   (hō'gē)   
n.   pl. hoa·gies Chiefly Pennsylvania & New Jersey
See submarine. See Regional Note at submarine.

[Alteration of hoggy.]
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