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English
Etymology
From Middle English sandblynde, alteration (due to association with sand) of *samblynde (“half-blind”), from Old English *sāmblind (“half-blind”), from sam- (“half-”) + blind (“blind”).
Adjective
sandblind (comparative more sandblind, superlative most sandblind)
- Half-blind; partially blind.
1832 May, Thomas Carlyle, “ Boswell’s Life of Johnson”, in R W E, editor, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: , volume III, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, published 1839, →OCLC, page 147:hree of the boys, of whom Mr. Hector was sometimes one, used to come in the morning as his humble attendants, and carry him to school. The purfly, sand-blind lubber and blubber, with his open mouth, and face of bruised honeycomb; yet already dominant, imperial, irresistible!
- Dim-sighted.
c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 167, column 1:O heauens, this is my true begotten Father, who being more then sand-blinde, high grauel blinde, knows me not, I will trie confusions with him.