English Explanatory Dictionary

shand

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Shame; scandal; disgrace.
  2. Base coin; one with mixed metals.
adj
  1. Worthless.
name
  1. A surname.

Word forms

shand shond more shand most shand Shands

Etymology

From Middle English shande, schande, schonde, from Old English sċeand, sċand (“shame, disgrace, infamy”), from Proto-West Germanic *skandu, from Proto-Germanic *skandō (“shame, disgrace”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱem- (“to cover, hide, conceal”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Skounde (“shame, disgrace”), West Frisian skande (“disgrace, shame, humiliation”), Dutch schande (“shame, disgrace, reproach, dishonour, scandal”), German Schande (“shame, disgrace, ignominity, dishonour”), Luxembourgish Schan (“shame”), Yiddish שאַנד (shand, “shame”), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰 (skanda, “shame, disgrace”). Related to shame, shend. Doublet of shanda and shonda. Compare typologically the opposite direction meaning shift Proto-Slavic *pozorъ < *zьrěti (“to observe”).

Synonyms

duffing no good valueless bastardly blown cacky chaffy cocking crapalicious cruddy cullionly draffish draffy dreckish drecky floccinaucinihilipilificatious for the birds fucking garbagey good-for-naught good-for-nothing goodless ineffectual invaluable jabberwocky junky mouldy mucid naughty no-account no good / no-good nonvaluable not worth a damn not worth a dime not worth a plug nickel not worth a brass farthing not worth a cent not worth a cress not worth a curse not worth a Continental not worth a farthing not worth hell room not worth a nickel not worth a penny not worth salt not worth a whistle nought of no value pissass punk putid rubbishly rubbishy sixpenny scabbed screwy scummy shand shit shitey

Derived words

shandy
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