noun
General Slang
piece
· noun · scottish
A sandwich — or anything between two bits of bread.
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A sandwich. The classic Scottish packed-lunch staple — a jeely piece, a piece on ham, a chip piece. Comes from 'a piece of bread'. Immortalised in the folk song 'The Jeely Piece Song'.
“Ma maw made us a piece on cheese fur the road.”
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A snack or bite to eat more broadly — 'piece time' at school was break.
“Away an' get yer piece, it's quarter past.”
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piece In A Sentence
Ma maw made us a piece on cheese fur the road.
Away an' get yer piece, it's quarter past.
Origin & Usage
Shortened from 'piece of bread/cake'. Standard Scots usage from at least the 18th century.
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