shandy

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (2)  · 
And maybe on a very hot day a shandy, which is a mixture of beer and lemonade.

View all »
Examples (50)

  • The weather was very hot, and railway travelling at times oppressive, even to delegates from the sunny land of France, and shandy-gaff , a beverage new to most of the visitors, was in great request. —  Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland
  • Or I can do you a shandy or Coca-Cola or some cocoa if you like it. —  Christie, Agatha - Hallowe'en 2
  • 'May I offer you a shandy, Lovejoy Yes, please, Ms Deighnson.' —  process 10
  • Phyllis, she remembered, never had been able to drink more than a glass of anything stronger than shandy-gaff without feeling the effects of it to what appeared to others a disproportionate extent. —  Winking at the Brim - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 48: 1974
  • Ye can get a shandy-gaff or juist the ale or the lemonade. —  Winking at the Brim - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 48: 1974
 

Tags

shandy hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 36 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

inconsiderate · QUI · unter · folksinger · advised

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

qualms · poofter · oh for heaven's sake · embodies · silence