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sandboy en · NOUN

Etymology

From sand + boy.

Meanings

1. A boy who sells sand.
   • Up and down the street not a child was to be seen. A sandboy with a donkey cart was the sole human arrangement in it. 1880, George MacDonald, Sir Gibbie, Hurst and Blackett:
2. (in similes) A proverbially happy or jolly person.
   • Drink always rubbed him the right way, and he would reach his rooms as jolly as a sandboy. 1910, O Henry, “The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball”, in The Trimmed Lamp:
   • Craw was happy as a sandboy, he reported: quite his former vile self, but a bit dazed to be bearded by Luke without warning. 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 23:

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