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shandy

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for shandy.

Editorial note

Also, Mike Lesk, who wrote uucp at Bell Labs, is a committed Tristram Shandy aficionado with a first edition.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

(uncountable, UK, Ireland) A drink made by mixing beer and lemonade.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of shandy gathered in one view.

noun

(uncountable, UK, Ireland) A drink made by mixing beer and lemonade.

noun

(countable) A glass of this drink.

adjective

(Northern England, Scotland) wild, energetic, romping, boisterous, rambunctious

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for shandy.

noun

(uncountable, UK, Ireland) A drink made by mixing beer and lemonade.

noun

(countable) A glass of this drink.

adjective

(Northern England, Scotland) wild, energetic, romping, boisterous, rambunctious

adjective

(Northern England, Scotland) unsteady, lacking self-discipline or control, somewhat dissipated

Example sentences

1

Also, Mike Lesk, who wrote uucp at Bell Labs, is a committed Tristram Shandy aficionado with a first edition.

2

They’d be photographed drinking shandy on a bus, or eating a sandwich, and that would be that.

3

An analogy would be comparing a pea-shooter to an automatic rifle, or a thimble full of shandy when compared to a gallon of vodka.

4

Tristram Shandy is not a eloquent testament to the limitation of words.

5

I love the idea, but I perhaps love more that Tristram Shandy was your choice of character to chat with.

6

Also Tristram Shandy is like the LiveJournal of someone popping dexedrine.

7

You can disguise the taste a bit by making a shandy (50/50 beer and 7up or British lemonade) or any fruit juice or squash you like.

8

But as it is, for those of us that know that properly-functioning nuclear plants don't pump nuclear waste into the surrounding atmosphere but do create storage hazards, it's about as insulting to the intelligence as a headline claiming that shandy[1] is more likely to cause alcohol poisoning than absinthe[2] [1]ingested [2]not ingested.

Quote examples

1

Rushdie himself quotes Milan Kundera who said: "...that the novel descended from two parents, Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa and Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy".

2

I think Proust was having a lend of us, it's "tristram shandy" shaggy dog stories brought into the modern era by an aesthete.

3

Radler is "shandy", a mixture of beer and lemonade.

4

For "Tristram Shandy" it would be: Sterne deliberately told his printer to put some things into the text, such as a black page, and some other printer marks.

Proper noun examples

1

The brand I remember is Top Deck Shandy, half and half lemonade and light beer.

2

I gave a mild response, but said that recently I had started reading a lot more, and pulled out a copy of Tristram Shandy.

3

Hadn't heard of Tristan Shandy, starting vol.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use shandy in a sentence?

Also, Mike Lesk, who wrote uucp at Bell Labs, is a committed Tristram Shandy aficionado with a first edition.

What does shandy mean?

(uncountable, UK, Ireland) A drink made by mixing beer and lemonade.

What part of speech is shandy?

shandy is commonly used as noun, adjective.