Shandy vs Cocktail - What's the difference?
shandy | cocktail |
(uncountable) A drink made by mixing beer and lemonade.
(countable) A glass of this drink.
A mixed alcoholic beverage.
* 1806 , 13 May 1806 edition of Balance and Columbian Repository , published by Hudson, New York, (first appearance in print):
A mixture of other substances.
A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in its veins.
(UK, slang, dated) A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward.
* Thackeray
A species of rove beetle, so called from its habit of elevating the tail.
Festive; lively.
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As nouns the difference between shandy and cocktail
is that shandy is a drink made by mixing beer and lemonade while cocktail is a mixed alcoholic beverage.As an adjective cocktail is
festive; lively.shandy
English
Noun
Derived terms
* hand shandy * rock shandySee also
* black and tan * portergaffcocktail
English
(wikipedia cocktail)Noun
(en noun)- They visited a pub noted for the wide range of cocktails they serve.
- Cocktail is a stimulating liquor composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters — it is vulgarly called a bittered sling and is supposed to be an excellent electioneering potion, inasmuch as it renders the heart stout and bold, at the same time that it fuddles the head.
- Scientists found a cocktail of pollutants in the river downstream from the chemical factory.
- a cocktail of illegal drugs
- (Darwin)
- It was in the second affair that poor little Barney showed he was a cocktail .
Synonyms
* mixed drinkDerived terms
* atomic cocktail * ckt * cocktail cabinet game * cocktail dress * cocktail frank * cocktail frankfurt * cocktail frankfurter * cocktail lounge * cocktail party * cocktail sauce * cocktail sav * cocktail savaloy * cocktail shaker * cocktail stick * cocktail table * Molotov cocktailAdjective
(en adjective)- now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher.
