toddy
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Hindi ताड़ी (tāṛī).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]toddy (countable and uncountable, plural toddies)
- Ellipsis of hot toddy.
- 2020, Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel: Stories, Lethe Press, →ISBN, page 115:
- 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
- (dated) The sweet sap from any of several tropical trees fermented to make an alcoholic drink.
- 1873 [1855], Samuel White Baker, Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon[1], J. B. Lippincott & Co., pages 272–273:
- […] 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; […]
- 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:
- Moti Guj was very fond of liquor—arrack for choice, though he would drink palm-tree toddy if nothing better offered.
- 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings:
- 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.
Synonyms
[edit]- see also Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Finnish: toti