shandygaff
(ˈʃændɪgæf)
Also shandigaff.
[Of unknown origin.]
A drink composed of a mixture of beer and ginger-beer.
| 1853 ‘C. Bede’ Verdant Green i. xii, He taught me..to make shandy-gaff and sherry-cobbler. 1861 Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. xv, With a large pewter, foaming with shandygaff, in each hand. 1881 J. Payn Grape from a Thorn li, A glass of ‘shandigaff’. 1903 F. Markham Recoll. Town Boy Westminster 135 What with the charge for the [racquet-] court, our luncheon, and frequent shandy⁓gaffs, our money only just lasted out. |