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Sawny or Sandy

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A Scotchman; a contraction of “Alexander.”

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Saucy
‘Saul
Saut Lairds o Dunscore (The)
Savage
Save
Save the Mark
Savoir Faire (French)
Savoy (The)
Saw
Sawdust Parlance (In)
Sawny or Sandy
Saxifrage
Saxon Castles
Saxon Characteristics (architectural)
Saxon Duke (in Hudibras)
Saxon English
Saxon Relics
Saxon Shore
Say
Sbirri (Italian)
Scævola [left-handed]