Dictionary entry

Shandy

Pronunciation: /ˈʃandi/

Pronunciation

/ˈʃandi/

Myanmar Meaning

လိမ္မော်ဘီယာ ၊ ဂျင်းဘီယာ။

Definition

shandy /'ʃændi/ n ( esp Brit ) (က) [U] ဘီယာႏွင့္ အခ်ဳိရည္ ေရာစပ္ထားသည့္ ယမကာ။ ရွႏၵီ။ (ခ) [C] ယင္းယမကာ (တစ္)ဖန္ခြက္။ Two lemonade shandies, please.

Examples

  1. ‘Yesterday evening
  2. Senor Ramon and I were reminiscing on a hard days fishing as we gently sipped a few Cruzcampo shandies on the second floor balcony of our borrowed flat.’
  3. ‘I'm sure that the majority of real detectives have no more than the occasional half of shandy and live in domestic bliss
  4. and are not haunted by the victims of crimes they could not solve.’
  5. ‘Witness also denied being drunk
  6. stating he had consumed only three or four shandies earlier that night.’
  7. ‘The brain associates completing the arduous learning task with the reward of a vigorous hand shandy.’
  8. ‘Perhaps we were the lucky ones
  9. celebrating our adolescence with a pierced ear and a can of shandy
  10. challenging the system by daring to let our hair touch our collars and wearing non regulation shoes to school.’
  11. ‘As for the drinking
  12. they will only have been shandies
  13. as that is all he would ever drink if he was driving.’
  14. ‘He'd obviously had a half too much of shandy
  15. though.’
  16. ‘The pub was quiet as Dan sipped his pint of Stella shandy
  17. served by a barman who he'd never seen doing the evening shift.’
  18. ‘I also like a Pimms in the summer
  19. and sometimes a shandy
  20. but that's not very cool
  21. is it!’
  22. ‘The ensuing trembling in the morning made the plastic hours in the airport departure lounge more bearable
  23. with only a few shandies to stop the shaking.’
  24. ‘The plot flushes through your head faster than a pint of shandy.’
  25. ‘By 1am
  26. however
  27. it's pretty obvious that plenty of people have had more than a few shandies
  28. and the city's Boar Lane is full of slightly swaying
  29. but good-natured
  30. revellers.’
  31. ‘I washed it down with a pint of John Smith's
  32. which with my soft friend's lager shandy came to more than £5 a little steep
  33. I am sure you will agree.’
  34. ‘Whenever the smoke of the grill became unbearable I would stand in the car park with a lime and lemonade
  35. or sometimes a shandy
  36. and she would look up from her book and smile.’
  37. ‘By the time the Bristolian trip hoppers were announced as 1995 victors
  38. the pony-tailed creative lynchpin had already had a few too many lager shandies and started ranting and raving at the assembled crowd.’
  39. ‘I thought it tasted disgusting and it was years before I tried another (although I did enjoy the weak shandies my dad would make for me on special occasions).’
  40. ‘She normally drank shandy
  41. but vodka did not seem inappropriate in the circumstances (in fact
  42. I wished I'd asked for a double Southern Comfort myself
  43. no soda
  44. no ice).’
  45. ‘The ladies drank shandies and the men had beer
  46. and Folsom proved he had a real talent for booze.’
  47. ‘Ray arrived and ordered a pint of shandy
  48. Mark looked at him strangely and then noticed the car keys Ray had put on the bar.’
  49. ‘Why not add a few fruity beers
  50. or spiced and flavored wheat beers
  51. or hard ciders
  52. or shandies to the list?’