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sandy
English
Etymology
From Middle English sandi, sondy, sandi?, from Old English sandi? (“sandy”), equivalent to sand +? -y. Cognate with Dutch zandig (“sandy”), German sandig (“sandy”), Swedish sandig (“sandy”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: s?n'di, IPA(key): /?sændi/
- Rhymes: -ændi
- Homophone: sandhi
Adjective
sandy (comparative sandier, superlative sandiest)
- Covered with sand.
- Sprinkled with sand.
- Containing sand.
- Some plants grow best in sandy soil.
- Like sand, especially in texture.
- Having the colour of sand.
Derived terms
- Great Sandy Desert
- pecan sandy
- sandy blight
- Sandy Hook
- sandyish
Translations
See also
- Appendix:Colors
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loamy
English
Etymology
loam +? -y
Adjective
loamy (comparative loamier, superlative loamiest)
- Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers. But the earth, which the day before had looked light and loamy to the eye, was stiff and hard enough when one came to tackle it with naked hands, and in an hour's time I had done little more than further weary myself and bruise my fingers.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
Translations
Anagrams
- Maloy, amylo-
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