shandygaff

Examples from the Web for shandygaff

• After a ten-mile pull on the river, a shandygaff of Bass and champagne is comforting to the oarsman.

  The Truth About Tristrem Varick|Edgar Saltus

• Shandygaff, shan′di-gaf, n. a mixture of bitter ale or beer with ginger-beer.

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements)|Various

• In taverns, of course, the churchwarden—beloved of Carlyle and Tennyson—was usually smoked to the accompaniment of shandygaff.

  The Social History of Smoking|G. L. Apperson

• Officers dismounted at the Club, quaffed "shandygaff" and sometimes even "Scotch and soda" in silent sense of exasperation.

  A Soldier's Trial|Charles King