shandy

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Pronunciation

• enPR: shăn'di, IPA^(key): /ˈʃændi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ændi

Etymology 1

Shortening of shandygaff.

Noun

shandy (countable and uncountable, plural shandies)

1. (uncountable, UK, Ireland) A drink made by mixing beer and lemonade.
2. (countable) A glass of this drink.
   • 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 95:

     ‘Even the Methodist minister’s wife had a shandy at the sportsground.’

Derived terms

• hand shandy
• rock shandy

Translations

mixture of lemonade and beer

Catalan: clara (ca) f, xampú (ca) m French: panaché (fr) m German: Alsterwasser (de) n, Radler (de) n Portuguese: panachê (pt) m, shandy m Spanish: clara (es) f (Spain)

a serving of this mixture

Catalan: clara (ca) f, xampú (ca) m French: panaché (fr) m German: Alsterwasser (de) n, Radler (de) n Portuguese: panachê (pt) m, shandy m Spanish: clara (es) f (Spain)

See also

• black and tan
• portergaff

Etymology 2

From an extension of dialectal shand (“worthless”), or from shand (“disgrace, dishonour”) +‎ -y.

Adjective

shandy (comparative shandier, superlative shandiest)

1. (Northern England, Scotland) wild, energetic, romping, boisterous, rambunctious
2. (Northern England, Scotland) unsteady, lacking self-discipline or control, somewhat dissipated
3. (Northern England, Scotland) empty-headed, crackbrained, half-crazy
4. (Northern England, Scotland) mild, gentle; shy, bashful, timid, reluctant, unmotivated
5. (Northern England, Scotland) poor-looking, miserable, broken-down, low, common, mean; shabby, untidy

Related terms

• shan
• shanny

See also

• dandy shandy (probably etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

• handsy