sandboy
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]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.