half-and-half
See also: half and half
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]half-and-half (not comparable)
- Alternative spelling of half and half
Adverb
[edit]half-and-half (not comparable)
- Alternative spelling of half and half
Noun
[edit]half-and-half (countable and uncountable, plural half-and-halfs)
- Alternative spelling of half and half
- 1850 September 14, [Charles Dickens], “Three “Detective” Anecdotes”, in Charles Dickens, editor, Household Words. A Weekly Journal., volume I, number 25, London: Office, […], →OCLC, section I (The Pair of Gloves), page 577, column 2:
- Accordingly, we went to a public house, near the Theatre, sat ourselves down in a quiet room upstairs on the first floor, and called for a pint of half-and-half, a-piece, and a pipe. “Well, Sir, we put our pipes aboard, and we drank our half-and-half, and sat a talking, very sociably, […]
- 2015 April 6, Mary Norris, “Introduction: Confession of a Comma Queen”, in Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, published 2016, →ISBN, page 5:
- I had some really nice customers—there was a couple who bought only a pint of half-and-half once a week for their coffee—and I had some deadbeats, the kind of people who knew that if they ever paid their bill in full you’d drop them.