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Sandy
Definitions
- 1 Covered with sand.
- 2 Sprinkled with sand.
- 3 Containing sand.
"Some plants grow best in sandy soil."
- 4 Like sand, especially in texture.
"Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda."
- 5 Having the colour of sand.
- 1 resembling or containing or abounding in sand; or growing in sandy areas wordnet
- 2 of hair color; pale yellowish to yellowish brown wordnet
- 1 A diminutive of the male given names Alexander, Sander, Alasdair, Sandeep, Sanford, or Santiago.
- 2 A market town and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL1649).
- 3 A diminutive of the female given names Sandra, Alexandra, or Cassandra.
- 4 A settlement in Llanelli Rural community, Carmarthenshire, Wales, just west of Llanelli town (OS grid ref SN4900).
- 1 A sandwich informal
- 2 A Scotsman. slang
- 3 Ellipsis of pecan sandy. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal
- 4 A Sand Dancer. Geordie, derogatory
- 5 The A-1 Sky Raider aircraft.
Etymology
From Middle English sandi, sondy, sandiȝ, from Old English sandiġ (“sandy”), equivalent to sand + -y. Cognate with Dutch zandig (“sandy”), German sandig (“sandy”), Swedish sandig (“sandy”).
From Middle English sandi, sondy, sandiȝ, from Old English sandiġ (“sandy”), equivalent to sand + -y. Cognate with Dutch zandig (“sandy”), German sandig (“sandy”), Swedish sandig (“sandy”).
* (Bedfordshire) Recorded as Sandeie in the Domesday Book, the town is named with Old English sand (“sand”) + īeġ (“island”). Doublet of Sanday. * (Carmarthenshire) From Welsh sant + dŷ (“house of the saint”)
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