subs. (Scots’ colloquial).—A Scot: short for Alexander.

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  1500.  DUNBAR, Works [PATERSON], 251 [T. L. KINGTON-OLIPHANT, The New English, i. 362. Alexander appears as SANDY; Englishmen on the other hand, dock the last half of the Greek word, and make it Alick].

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  d. 1555.  LYNDSAY, Kitteis Confessioun [LAING], i. 138.

        Quad he, Ane plak I wyll gar SANDIE,
Give thee agane, with handie dandie.

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  1885.  The Sportsman, 28 July, 2, 1. Scotland has been troubled by a great and mighty heat, which has scorched SANDY’S brow and burnt the colour out of his kilt.

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