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Sandy vs Loamy - What's the difference?

sandy | loamy |

As adjectives the difference between sandy and loamy

is that sandy is covered with sand while loamy is consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam.

As a proper noun Sandy

is a diminutive of the male given name Alexander.

As a noun Sandy

is shortened form of Sand Dancer.

sandy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Covered with sand.
  • Sprinkled with sand.
  • Like sand, especially in texture.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.}}
  • Having the colour of sand.

    • Derived terms

    * Great Sandy Desert

    See also

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    loamy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam.
  • * 1898 , , (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.