Wiktionary
a. (context UK dialectal Scotland English) worthless. n. 1 shame; scandal; disgrace. 2 (context UK dialectal Scotland English) base coin.
Wikipedia
Shand is a surname of Scottish descent; also spelled Schawand, Schaand, Schande and Schand. It may refer to:
People in the United Kingdom
- Alexander Shand, 1st Baron Shand PC (1828–1904), Scottish advocate and judge.
- Alexander Faulkner Shand FBA (1858–1936), English writer and barrister.
- Jimmy Shand MBE (1908–2000), Scottish musician who played traditional Scottish dance music.
- John Shand (1834–1914) Scottish mathematician who emigrated to NZ to be a professor at Dunedin.
- Mark Shand (1951-2014), British travel writer, brother to Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.
- Major Bruce Shand (1917–2006), officer in the British Army, father of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.
- Eric Gordon Loudoun-Shand MC TD MA (1893–1972), rugby union player.
- Ernest Shand (1868–1924), Victorian guitarist and composer.
- Hector Shand (1879–1942), Scottish footballer
- Frances Shand Kydd (1936–2004), mother of Diana, Princess of Wales.
- Peter Shand Kydd (1925–2006), stepfather of Diana, Princess of Wales.
- Philip Morton Shand (1895–1960), English architect, design critic and wine and food writer, grandfather of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.
- Major Stewart Walter Loudoun-Shand VC (1879–1916), officer in the British Army.
- Camilla Rosemary Shand (b. 1947), maiden name of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.
- Elspeth Rosamund Morton Shand (b. 1932), maiden name of Elspeth Howe, Baroness Howe of Idlicote - British Crossbencher life peer.
Shand may also refer to:
- Adam Shand, Founded Personal Telco and worked for Weta Digital.
- Adam Shand (b. 1962), Australian writer and journalist.
- David Hubert Warner Shand (1921–2011), the third and last Anglican Bishop of St Arnaud.
- David Shand (b. 1956), Canadian ice hockey defenseman.
- Donald Munro Shand CMG (1904–1976), Australian grazier and the founder of East-West Airlines.
- Major James Barclay Shand VD (1870–1944), Australian politician.
- Ron Shand (1906–1993), Australian actor and comedian.
- Remy Shand (b. 1978), Canadian R&B/soul singer.
- Robert "Bob" Shand (1866–1934), South African international rugby union player.
- Phyllis Shand Allfrey (1915–1986), West Indian writer, socialist activist, newspaper editor and politician of the island of Dominica in the Caribbean, author of The Orchid House.
- Thomas Shand (1911–1969), New Zealand Member of Parliament (MP) (1946-1969).
- Shand (View from the Mirror), a character in Ian Irvine's The View from the Mirror novels.
- William A. Shands (1889–1973), American politician and elected officeholder.
Usage examples of "shand".
Bryn Shander that his unique style and cut gave his scrimshaw a special artistic and aesthetic worth.
Hole, the normally unassuming and fiercely independent towns on the southernmost lake, Redwaters, had boldly demanded compensation from Bryn Shander and Termalaine.
Shand, who was openly homosexual, was known to frequent several Edinburgh gay bars, including at least one believed to cater for those whose tastes run to sadomasochistic practices.
The second fan site had little more to offer, except a rumour that Shand had frequented a pub in Edinburgh where gay sadomasochistic group sex allegedly took place in an upstairs room.
As the only true scrimShander in Lonelywood, Regis was the sole person in the town with reason or desire to travel regularly to Bryn Shander, the principle settlement and market hub of Ten-Towns.
Thirty-one-year-old Shand was hailed as one of the new stars of British crime fiction when his first novel, Copycat, shot to the top of the bestseller lists on both sides of the Atlantic and won the John Creasey Memorial Dagger and the Mcvitie prize.
And their wails carried out across the still lake to Lonelywood and Bremen, to the cheering goblins in Termalaine, and down the plain to the horrified witnesses in Bryn Shander.
His crafted pieces carried ten times their old value, the price partially inflated by the halfling's small degree of fame, but moreso because he had persuaded some connoisseurs who were visiting Bryn Shander that his unique style and cut gave his scrimshaw a special artistic and aesthetic worth.
By this time, the people in Caer-Dineval had seen the smoke and heard the screams and were already in full flight to Bryn Shander, or out on the docks begging their sailors to come home.
More than five hundred of their companions had been killed and two hundred more would eventually die of their wounds, yet the toll wasn't heavy considering the two thousand barbarians who lay dead in the streets of Termalaine and on the slopes of Bryn Shander.