toddy

[tod-ee]

noun

plural

toddies 

1. a drink made of alcoholic liquor and hot water, sweetened and sometimes spiced with cloves.

2. the drawn sap, especially when fermented, of any of several toddy palms, used as a drink.

toddy

/ ˈtɒdɪ /

noun

1. a drink made from spirits, esp whisky, with hot water, sugar, and usually lemon juice

2. 1. the sap of various palm trees ( toddy or wine palms ), used as a beverage

   2. the liquor prepared from this sap

3. (in Malaysia) a milky-white sour alcoholic drink made from fermented coconut milk, drunk chiefly by Indians

Word History and Origins

Origin of toddy¹

First recorded in 1600–10, toddy is from the Hindi word tāḍi

Word History and Origins

Origin of toddy¹

C17: from Hindi tārī juice of the palmyra palm, from tār palmyra palm, from Sanskrit tāra, probably of Dravidian origin

Example Sentences

Once in Kerala, the film whizzes through a checklist of things a layperson might associate with the tourist-favourite state - its famous backwaters, the ubiquitous coconut trees, toddy, elephants, and Onam, its most popular festival.

From BBC

Women throughout India have long called for liquor bans to reign in their drunken husbands, who squandered all their earnings drinking the toddy bar dry before stumbling home and assaulting them.

From Salon

Sit back, nurse a comforting hot toddy, and allow this gem of a novel to slowly envelop you like a hug you’ll be sorry to break up.

From Seattle Times

The viewer stops at a village where they are boiling the sap of date palms to make toddy, a local brew.

From BBC

If we got bad sore throats, flu, croup or cough, he would make us “hot toddies.”

From Seattle Times

Related Words

• booze 
• drink 
• ethanol 
• liquor 
• methanol 
• smoke