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say it: SAND-man
sandman is a noun meaning "an elf in fairy stories who sprinkles sand in children's eyes to make them sleepy". It carries one recorded sense.
an elf in fairy stories who sprinkles sand in children's eyes to make them sleepy
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sandman come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.