shandy

• enPR: shăn'di, IPA^(key): /ˈʃændi/

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• Rhymes: -ændi

Shortening of shandygaff.

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.’

• hand shandy
• rock shandy

• black and tan
• portergaff

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

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

• shan
• shanny

• dandy shandy (probably etymologically unrelated)

• handsy