Definition of Toddy

1. Noun. A mixed drink made of liquor and water with sugar and spices and served hot.

Exact synonyms: Hot Toddy
Terms within: Rum
Generic synonyms: Mixed Drink
Specialized synonyms: Tom And Jerry

Definition of Toddy

1. n. A juice drawn from various kinds of palms in the East Indies; or, a spirituous liquor procured from it by fermentation.

Definition of Toddy

1. Noun. short for hot toddy ¹

2. Noun. (dated) the sweet sap from any of several tropical trees fermented to make an alcoholic drink ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Toddy

1. an alcoholic beverage [n -DIES]

Medical Definition of Toddy

1. 1. A juice drawn from various kinds of palms in the East Indies; or, a spirituous liquor procured from it by fermentation. 2. A mixture of spirit and hot water sweetened. Toddy differs from grog in having a less proportion of spirit, and is being made hot and sweetened. Toddy bird, the common paradoxure; the palm cat. Origin: Formed from Hind. Tai the juice of the palmyra tree, popularly, toddy, fr. Ta the palmyra tree, Skr. Tala. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Toddy

toddies
todding
toddle
toddle off
toddled
toddler
toddler's fracture
toddlerdom
toddlerhood
toddlerhoods
toddlers
toddles
toddling
todds
toddy (current term)
toddy alm
toddy palm
toddy palms
toder
todgers
todies
todo
todorokite
todorokites
todos
todralazine
todraw
todrive
tods

Literary usage of Toddy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"toddy, or PALM-WINE, a drink made in tropical countries from the sap of various palms ... In the Malayan Archipelago, toddy is the sweet juice of the flower ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"toddy, or PALM-WINE, a drink made in tropical countries from the sap of various palms ... In the Malayan Archipelago, toddy is the sweet juice of the flower ..."

3. The Journal of the Polynesian Society by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) (1897)
"In Philippines the vinegar prepared from sour toddy is called suka, tuka, suko, tuko. ... The Philippine Island word for the toddy (tuba) is probably from a ..."

4. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"About the morning of the eighth day, the sap begins to exude, when the toddy drawer again trims this truncated «pathe And inserts its extremity into an ..."

5. Curiosities of Savage Life by James Greenwood (1865)
"I am not the son of the toddy-man, but of the Eaja of Tanjong Pura." He then related to him the agreement into which he had entered with the toddy-man; ..."

6. The Indian Forester (1896)
"toddy is not, as some understand it to mean, the harsh alcoholic liquor obtained by distillation from the fermented sap of the palm ; but it is the ..."

7. The Journal of the Polynesian Society by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) (1897)
"In Philippines the vinegar prepared from sour toddy is called suka, tuka, suko, tuko. ... The Philippine Island word for the toddy (tuba) is probably from a ..."

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