English Explanatory Dictionary

sandy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Covered with sand.
  2. Sprinkled with sand.
  3. Containing sand.
  4. Like sand, especially in texture.
  5. Having the colour of sand.
noun
  1. A sandwich
  2. Ellipsis of pecan sandy.
name
  1. A unisex given name from diminutives
  2. A diminutive of the male given names Alexander, Sander, Alasdair, Sandeep, Sanford, or Santiago.
  3. A diminutive of the female given names Sandra, Alexandra, or Cassandra.
name
  1. A market town and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL1649).
  2. A settlement in Llanelli Rural community, Carmarthenshire, Wales, just west of Llanelli town (OS grid ref SN4900).
noun
  1. Diminutive of Sand Dancer
noun
  1. A Scotsman.
  2. The callsign of an aircraft participating in CAS (close air support)
  3. The A-1 Sky Raider aircraft.
  4. The A-10 Avenger II aircraft.

Pronunciation

săn'di /ˈsændi/ En-us-sandy.ogg /ˈsæn.di/ En-au-Sandy.ogg

Word forms

sandy sandier sandiest sandies Sandys Sandi Sandie

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”).

Derived words

Great Sandy Desert pecan sandy sandily sandiness Sandy Bay sandy blight sandy blind mole-rat sandy blind mole rat sandy carpet Sandy Cay Sandy Crossing Sandy Flat Sandy Gully Sandy Hill Sandy Hollow Sandy Hook sandyish Sandy Lane sandy laverock Sandy Point sandy pot sandy soil Sandy Claus
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