'Toddy' definitions:
Definition of 'toddy'
(from WordNet)
noun
A mixed drink made of liquor and water with sugar and spices and served hot [syn: hot toddy, toddy]
Definition of 'Toddy'
From: GCIDE
- Toddy \Tod"dy\, n. [Formed from Hind. t[=a]?[imac] the juice of the palmyra tree, popularly, toddy, fr. t[=a]? the palmyra tree, Skr. t[=a]la.]
- 1. A juice drawn from various kinds of palms in the East Indies; or, a spirituous liquor procured from it by fermentation. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A mixture of spirit and hot water sweetened. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Toddy differs from grog in having a less proportion of spirit, and is being made hot and sweetened. [1913 Webster]
- Toddy bird (Zool.), a weaver bird of the East Indies and India: -- so called from its fondness for the juice of the palm.
- Toddy cat (Zool.), the common paradoxure; the palm cat. [1913 Webster]