Sandboy

Origin

From sand + boy.

Full definition of sandboy

Noun

1. A boy who sells sand.
• 1880, George MacDonald, Sir Gibbie, Hurst and BlackettUp 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. A proverbially happy or jolly person.
• 1910, O Henry, The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball, in The Trimmed LampDrink 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.