sandy

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   resembling or containing or abounding in sand

   or growing in sandy areas

2. 2
   adj

   Containing sand.

   Some plants grow best in sandy soil.

3. 3
   adj

   Like sand, especially in texture.

   Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.

4. 4
   adj

   of hair color

5. 5
   adj

   Covered with sand.

6. 6
   adj

   Sprinkled with sand.

7. 7
   adj

   Having the colour of sand.

8. 8
   noun

   A sandwich

Etymology

* (Bedfordshire): Recorded as Sandeie in the Domesday Book, the town is named with Old English sand (“sand”) + īeġ (“island”). Doublet of Sanday. * (Carmarthenshire): From Welsh sant + dŷ (“house of the saint”) * (Tyneside (Geordie)): sand + -y