English

Noun

sandboy ‎(plural sandboys)

1. A boy who sells sand.
   • 1880, George MacDonald, Sir Gibbie, Hurst and Blackett

     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.

2. (in similes) A proverbially happy or jolly person.
   • 1910, O Henry, The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball, in The Trimmed Lamp

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

   • 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 23:

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