Consisting of or containing sand; abounding in sand; covered or sprinkled with sand: as, a sandy desert or plain; a sandy road or soil.Resembling sand; hence, unstable; shifting; not firm or solid.Dry; arid; uninteresting.Of the color of sand; of a yellowish-red color: as, sandy hair.n. Same as sandy laverock (which see, under laverock).n. A Scotsman, especially a Lowlander.n. A Tasmanian fish, Uphritis urvillii. Also called the freshwater flathead.