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English
Etymology
From sand + boy.
Noun
sandboy (plural sandboys)
- A boy who sells sand.
1880, George MacDonald, Sir Gibbie, Hurst and Blackett: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.
- (in similes) A proverbially happy or jolly person.
1910, O Henry, “The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball”, in The Trimmed Lamp:Drink always rubbed him the right way, and he would reach his rooms as jolly as a sandboy.
1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 23:Craw was happy as a sandboy, he reported: quite his former vile self, but a bit dazed to be bearded by Luke without warning.
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