shandygaff
English
Etymology
The origin is unknown.
Noun
shandygaff (countable and uncountable, plural shandygaffs)
- (Britain) A mixture of strong beer and ginger beer.
Derived terms
- shandy
References
- “shandygaff” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for shandygaff in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)