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