shandygaff

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

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

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

• What better place can be imagined for a lunch—a biscuit and a bit of cheese, washed down with a pint of refreshing shandygaff.

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