▪ I. shandy, n.
(ˈʃændɪ)
Short for shandygaff. Also, a mixture of beer and fizzy lemonade.
| 1888 Daily News 4 June 3/1 Sparkling hop, shandy, and other new-fangled drinks. 1893 Westm. Gaz. 10 Oct. 5/2 The witness..supplied him with some bitter-shandy. 1919 Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 593/1 Staff-Sergeant Jack Dorley, R.E., finished off his shandy with a long draught. 1947 K. Tennant Lost Haven xvii. 267 Miss O'Shea was drinking ginger-beer and her escort had a shandy. 1969 A. Christie Hallowe'en Party v. 39 For me, I think a shandy. The ginger beer and the beer? 1976 Milton Keynes Express 30 July 2/7 He said Mr Westley had drunk four pints of shandy during the evening but his driving had not appeared to be affected. |
▪ II. shandy, a. dial.
(ˈʃændɪ)
Also shanny.
[Of obscure origin; connexion with OE. sceand masc., buffoon, charlatan, sceand fem., disgrace (see shond) is unlikely.]
Wild, boisterous; also visionary, empty-headed, half-crazy. See also Eng. Dial. Dict.
| 1691 Ray N.C. Words 62 Shandy, wild. 1788 W. H. Marshall Yorksh. II. 351 Shandy, a little crack-brained; somewhat crazy. a 1825 Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Shanny, shatter-brained. 1855 Robinson Whitby Gloss., Shandy, crack-brained, shallow, crazy. ‘He's quite shandy.’ Also, slender in person. ‘A spare shandy sort of a figure.’ 1884 Trollope Old Man's Love I. 107 Could there be anything more moonstruck, more shandy, more wretchedly listless, than for a girl..to indulge in dreams of an impossible lover. 1895 A. Patterson Man & Nat. on Broads 27 Master'll wonder if I'm clean gone tu sleep or if I'm shanny. |
Comb. shandy-pated a., giddy, thoughtless.
| 1806 Bloomfield Wild Flowers, Horkey 47 A shanny⁓pated crew. 1863 Trollope Rachel Ray I. 250 Mrs. Ray..was so inconsequent in her mental workings, so shandy-pated if I may say so, that [etc.]. 1867 ― Chron. Barset I. xxxii. 276, I am in such matters so shandy-pated, that I can trust myself to be sure of nothing. |