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Sandboy

noun
1.
A young peddler of sand; used now only to express great happiness in 'happy as a sandboy'.





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"Sandboy" Quotes from Famous Books



... with his cronies and learned to keep his foot on the little rail six inches above the floor for an hour or so every afternoon before he went home. Drink always rubbed him the right way, and he would reach his rooms as jolly as a sandboy. Jessie would meet him at the door, and generally they would dance some insane kind of a rigadoon about the floor by way of greeting. Once when Bob's feet became confused and he tumbled headlong over ...
— The Trimmed Lamp • O. Henry


Words linked to "Sandboy" :   United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, UK, U.K., Britain, pedlar, United Kingdom, Great Britain, hawker, peddler, pitchman, packman


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