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toddy en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani (Hindi ताड़ी (tāṛī) / Urdu تاڑی (tāṛī)), ultimately from Dravidian.

Meanings

1. (countable, dated, uncountable) The sweet sap from any of several tropical trees fermented to make an alcoholic drink.
   • […] the cocoa-nut tree yields a pure draught from a dry and barren land; a cup of water to the temperate and thirsty traveler; a cup of cream from the pressed kernel; a cup of refreshing and sparkling toddy to the early riser; […] 1873 [1855], Samuel White Baker, Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon, J. B. Lippincott & Co., pages 272–273:
   • A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared. 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings:
   • Moti Guj was very fond of liquor—arrack for choice, though he would drink palm-tree toddy if nothing better offered. 1891 August, Rudyard Kipling, “Moti Guj–Mutineer”, in Life’s Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., […], published October 1891, →OCLC, page 308:
2. (India, South, countable, uncountable) The drink itself.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable) Ellipsis of hot toddy.
   alt of hot toddy
   • Yonatan brings them all dandelion toddies and places down a caddy on the center of their table crowded with bottles of hot sauce, packets of tapioca pearls, salt, utensils, and miniature divination games 2020, Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel: Stories, Lethe Press, →ISBN, page 115:

Forms

Deriveds

toddy ladle · toddy shrike · toddy iron · toddy cat · toddyman · toddy stick · toddy palm · toddy bird

Descendants

toti

Synonyms

palm wine

Translations (9)

ta கள் (hot toddy) · nl grog (hot toddy) · ml കള്ള് (hot toddy) · cs grog (hot toddy) · ta ஈழம் (hot toddy) · cs punč (hot toddy) · de Grog (hot toddy) · fr grog (hot toddy) · fi toti (hot toddy)