toddy

plural toddies

1. countabledateduncountableThe sweet sap from any of several tropical trees fermented to make an alcoholic drink.

   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

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   […] 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

2. IndiaSouthcountableuncountableThe drink itself.

   Synonyms: palm wine

3. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis 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