Definitions
an elf in fairy stories who sprinkles sand in children's eyes to make them sleepy
Word origin
From sand + -man. The mythological sense may be from German Sandmann, Sandmännchen, as it is apparently first attested in English in the context of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s novella The Sandman (1816). The German is attested in the relevant sense since at least the mid-18th century.
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