Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Shandygaff.
- n. A drink made of beer and lemonade.
Wiktionary
Examples
“A shandy is a part-beer (typically a light, sessionable, lager) and part lemonade (or ginger beer).”
“Mr. Policeman, I went to England with my grandma last summer, and I had a can of shandy, which is beer mixed with lemonade.”
“A beer and a shandy were her limit and I know we dont drink much anymore but come on.”
“And maybe on a very hot day a shandy, which is a mixture of beer and lemonade.”
“It's a lemonade-ish beer a "shandy" is typically half lemonade, half wheat beer that goes down well bitterly cold.”
“Like "just A moment," the album sees the act expanding the posthardcore sounds that dominated their early releases. "shandy" starts as an experimental pop song filled with dizzying distorted noises and then morphs into a dramatic rocker. "this is is this?" is the disc's most dynamic composition.”
“He called it "shandy," and I felt as though the lemon soda was being punished.”
“In the UK it's called "shandy" as i learned from google.”
“Variations: Add a touch of grenadine and you'll have a Monaco, a French version of the shandy.”
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“My great-great-grandmother Maud Riordan Florian McNulty completely botched a plot to assassinate Queen Victoria by slipping rat poison into her lime shandy when she attended a doily exhibition in Killarney in 1867.”
The Wall Street Journal: Tracing My Roots and Coming Up With Dirt
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘shandy’.
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
taramea, tawings, tchicks, timider, tirades, tirings, towings, trailed, trailer, trained, trainee, trainer and 2373 more...
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The weird, the wonderful and the plai...
Loved for their ingenuity, an exact description, or simply for the pure joy of it.
acidulous, aprosdoketon, higgledy-piggledy, lexicographical, ninja, audacious, somnabulist, shivaree, amorphous, quidnunc, glib, melancholy and 353 more...
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Whatever's at hand
For a more comprehensive list, see Hernesheir's Handy Words.
For trivet's wonderful list of handy compounds, see handie.
hand, hands, handy, handedness, Tristram Shandy, left hand, red-handed, cackhanded, on the other hand, on the one hand, to hand, backhand and 18 more...
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Cocktails: Drink Up. The Night is Young!
Have some liquor to help the orange juice go down.
zombie, yellow bird, white russian, whiskey sour, vodka tonic, tom collins, tom and jerry, toasted almond, tequila sunrise, stinger, spritzer, sloe gin fizz and 62 more...
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Kalli's Words
redundant, munchkin, escapade, natch, boom, fap, geek, nocturnal, pedantic, tactile, conversant, oxymoron and 188 more...
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food words
weetabix, blancmange, shandy, meringue, allspice, pavlova, quiche, caster sugar, suet, moonshine, turnip, swede and 93 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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Foodie
As much fun to say as they are to eat.
blueberry, cider, almond, apricot, asparagus, banana, fudge, foldover, flapjacks, filbert, fig, biscuit and 217 more...
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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ElRojo
R. Peter Jackson's list
cantillation, jackstaff, pullulate, whoremonger, colloquy, batman, anathema, idiosyncratic, facilitation, sympathy, empathy, satrap and 135 more...
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Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric
The ones with which I flavor my speech, and the ones I love to find peppered in literature.
perspicacious, acerbic, vituperation, loquacious, castigate, vitriolic, scintillating, provenance, frolic, attendant, pursuant, epistemology and 313 more...
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The Motherland! (God Bless the Queen)
Words that remind me of England, which I miss very much.
snog, nappy, wanker, telly, knickers, crumpet, pants, bum, loo, bollocks, stroppy, whinge and 108 more...
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I Drink Your...
I drink it up!
milkshake, smoothie, egg cream, coolatta, horchata, lassi, slurpee, Arnold Palmer, Shirley Temple, coffee, tea, cappuccino and 42 more...
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menagerie a trois
Names of our family pets.
shog, jake, purdy, ernie, victoria peckham, gregory, yellow, kif, pepsi, yoko, marmalade, jo and 37 more...
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meangrape's Words
sciamancy, quine, brane, disconnectivity, functor, manifold, cohomology, capon, quandle, hyponatremia, quince, quibble and 26 more...
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It's Beer O'Clock
Types of beer.
rumfustian, stoorey, kvass, calibogus, clamber-clown, courmi, cuckoo-ale, dole-beer, egg-flip, gale-beer, grout-ale, home-brew and 85 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for shandy.
uselessness *cough* Nov 26, 2007
meangrape Variants include beer with sprite Nov 26, 2007