Meaning of sandboy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A boy who sells sand.
2. A proverbially happy or jolly person.

Examples

“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.”

“Drink always rubbed him the right way, and he would reach his rooms as jolly as a sandboy.”

“Craw was happy as a sandboy, he reported: quite his former vile self, but a bit dazed to be bearded by Luke without warning.”

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