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Definition: Sandboy |
SandboyNoun1. (British) a peddler of sand at a seashore resort; used now only to express great happiness in the expression "happy as a sandboy". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cheerfulness | Merry as a cricket, merry as a grig, merry as a marriage bell; joyful, joyous, jocund, jovial; jolly as a thrush, jolly as a sandboy; blithesome; gleeful, gleesome; hilarious, rattling. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "Sandboy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sandboy" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "sandboy": as happy as a sandboy ♦ as jolly as a sandboy ♦ jolly as a sandboy ♦ jolly as sandboy. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sandboy | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sandboy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | много весел (jolly as sandboy). (various references) | |
Manx | delleyder geinnee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andboysay.(various references) | |
Russian | жизнерадостный (blithe, buoyant, debonair, eupeptic, good-humoured, jolly as sandboy, lively as a cricket, merry as a cricket, resilient, rose-coloured, zestful). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | čio i veseo (sandboy: jolly as sandboy). (various references) | |
Swedish | obekymrad (happy go lucky, jolly as sandboy, light hearted, unconcerned, unmindful), livsglad (jolly as sandboy). (various references) | |
Thai | มีความสุขมาก ((as) happy as a sandboy, (as) happy as can be, (as) happy as Larry, (as) happy as the day is long, chuffed). (various references) | |
Turkish | çocuklar gibi şen (as happy as a sandboy, as jolly as a sandboy, jolly as a sandboy), çocuk gibi sevinçli (as happy as a sandboy, as jolly as a sandboy, jolly as a sandboy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vui như mở cờ trong bụng, $as jolly as a sandboy$ rất vui vẻ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-n-o-s-y" | |
-2 letters: bands, bandy, bonds, donas, donsy, sandy, synod. | |
-3 letters: abos, abys, ados, ands, bads, band, bans, bays, boas, bods, body, bond, bony, boys, dabs, days, doby, dona, dons, nabs, naos, nays, nobs, nods, nosy, sand, snob, soda, soya, sybo, yobs, yods, yond. | |
-4 letters: abo, abs, aby, ado, ads, and, any, ays, bad, ban, bas, bay, boa, bod, bos, boy, bys, dab, day, don, dos, nab, nay, nob, nod, nos, ods, ons, sab, sad, say, sob, sod, son, soy, syn, yob, yod, yon. | |
-5 letters: ab, ad, an, as, ay, ba, bo, by, do, na, no, od, on, os, oy, so, ya, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-n-o-s-y" | |
+2 letters: anybodies, boneyards. | |
+4 letters: isoantibody. | |
+5 letters: considerably, demonstrably, dishonorably, hydrocarbons. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 6E 64 62 6F 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .- -. -.. -... --- -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01101110 01100100 01100010 01101111 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a n d b o y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 006E 0064 0062 006F 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53678070688191 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Expressions 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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