sandblind

sandblind
sandblind (adj.) "half-blind," c.1400, probably altered (by influence of sand) from O.E. *samblind, the first element from W.Gmc. *sami-, from PIE *semi- (see semi-); Cf. O.E. samlæred "half-taught, badly instructed," samstorfen "half-dead."

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