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sandy

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sand·y  (snd)
adj. sand·i·er, sand·i·est
1. Covered with, full of, or consisting of sand.
2. Having characteristics similar to sand.
3. Of the color of sand; light yellowish brown.

sandi·ness n.

sandy
Adjective
[sandier, sandiest]
1. resembling, containing, or covered with sand
2. (of hair) reddish-yellow
sandiness n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.sandy - of hair color; pale yellowish to yellowish brown; "flaxen locks"
blond, blonde, light-haired - being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes; "blond Scandinavians"; "a house full of light-haired children"
2.sandy - resembling or containing or abounding in sand; or growing in sandy areas; "arenaceous limestone"; "arenaceous grasses"
Translations

sandy [ˈsændɪ] adjarenoso; [colour] → rojizo
sandy [ˈsændɪ] adjsablonneux/euse; couvert(e) de sable; [colour] → sable inv, blond roux inv
sandy [ˈsændɪ] sand adjsandig;
(beach) → Sand-;
(hair) → rotblond
sandy [ˈsændɪ] adjsabbioso/a;
(colour) → color sabbia inv; biondo/a rossiccio/a

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I judge it was about a couple of weeks or so after this that I dropped old Sandy McWilliams a note one day - it was a Tuesday - and asked him to come over and take his manna and quails with me next day; and the first thing he did when he stepped in was to twinkle his eye in a sly way, and say, -
The workmen all looked up; Jim Salt, a burly, red-haired man known as Sandy Jim, paused from his planing, and Adam said to Seth, with a sharp glance of surprise, "What
I must own that we found it far prettier than anything we had known in Southern Ohio, which we were so fond of and so loath to leave, and as I look back it still seems to me one of the prettiest little places I have ever known, with its white wooden houses, glimmering in the dark of its elms and maples, and their silent gardens beside each, and the silent, grass- bordered, sandy streets between them.
 
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