Dictionary Definition
sandy adj
1 composed of or covered with relatively large
particles; "granular sugar"; "gritty sand" [syn: farinaceous, coarse-grained,
grainy, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy]
3 of hair color; pale yellowish to yellowish
brown; "flaxen locks" [syn: flaxen]
4 resembling or containing sand; or growing in
sandy areas; "arenaceous limestone"; "arenaceous grasses" [syn:
arenaceous, sandlike] [ant: argillaceous]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- , /ˈsændi/, /"s
Extensive Definition
Sandy may refer
to:
Places
*Sandy, Bedfordshire, England- Sandy, Carmarthenshire, Wales
- Sandy, Oregon
- Sandy, Pennsylvania
- Sandy Run, a stream in Pennsylvania
- Sandy, Utah
- Big Sandy, Tennessee
- Sandy Spring, Maryland
- Sandy Hook (several places)
People
Sandy is a popular unisex name; the male version is the Scottish diminutive for "Alexander" or "Alasdair", while the female version is a diminutive for "Sandra" or less commonly "Alexandra." In the 18th and 19th centuries, "Sandy" or "Sawney" was used as a pejorative term for Scottish people, but was gradually replaced by Jock.Notable people named Sandy
include:
Women:
- Sandy Chambers, Italian singer
- Sandy Denny, British singer and songwriter
- Sandy Duncan, American singer and actress
- Sandy Green, British singer and songwriter
- Sandy Mölling, German singer
- Sandy, the pseudonym of the porn model Zsanett Égerházi
- Sandy, the singer from the duo Sandy & Junior
Men:
- Sandy/Sawney Bean, legendary Scottish Cannibal
- Sandy Brown (musician), Scottish Jazz Clarinettist
- Sandy Dvore, American artist
- Sandy Koufax, American baseball pitcher
- Sandy Wollaston, British explorer
- Sandy Woodward, nickname of British Admiral John Woodward
Fictional characters named
Sandy include:
- Sandy Hawkins, a DC Comics superhero
- Sandy Cheeks, a character from SpongeBob SquarePants
- Sandy Cohen, a character in the TV series The OC played by Peter Gallagher
- Sandy Olsson, a character from Grease
- Sandybell, the main character of the Hello! Sandybell anime series
- Sha Wujing (Sandy) in the book and TV series Monkey
Other
- Sandy (song), a song by the Carpenters. It is featured on their seventh album from 1976 "A Kind Of Hush"
- SANDY, the character from TV series 'Monkey Magic' played by Shiro Kishibe
- 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy), a song by Bruce Springsteen
- Sandy (band), an Iranian rap group playing bandari music that became famous in the late 90s
- Sandy Records, a short-lived rock and roll record label in Mobile, Alabama in the late 1950s and early 1960s
- Sandy (Sandy Denny album), by British singer-songwriter Sandy Denny
- Sandy, the name given by the USAF to aircraft escorting CSAR helicopters, with A-1 Skyraiders most commonly being given this nickname
- Sandy (mouse) or SDY, a dysbindin knockout mouse
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sandy in Japanese:
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Saharan, anhydrous, arenaceous, arenarious, arid, athirst, aureate, auric, beige, bone-dry, breccial, brecciated, buff, buff-yellow, canary, canary-yellow, citron, citron-yellow, craggy, cream, creamy, crystal, crystalline, desert, droughty, dry, dry as dust, dusty, ecru, fallow, flaxen, gilded, gilt, gold, gold-colored, golden, grainy, granular, granulate, granulated, gravelly, gritty, high and dry, juiceless, lapideous, lemon, lemon-yellow, like
parchment, lithoid,
lithoidal, luteolous, lutescent, monolithic, ocherish, ocherous, ochery, ochreous, ochroid, ochrous, ochry, or, pebbled, pebbly, porphyritic, primrose, primrose-colored,
primrose-yellow, rock-ribbed, rock-strewn, rock-studded, rocklike, rocky, sabulous, saffron, saffron-colored,
saffron-yellow, sallow,
sand-colored, sapless,
shingled, shingly, stonelike, stony, straw, straw-colored, thirsting, thirsty, trachytic, undamped, unwatered, waterless, xanthic, xanthous, yellow, yellowish