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noun

Toddy n.

A juice drawn from various kinds of palms in the East Indies; or, a spirituous liquor procured from it by fermentation.

A mixture of spirit and hot water sweetened. Note: Toddy differs from grog in having a less proportion of spirit, and is being made hot and sweetened.

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.

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"Toddy" Quotes from Famous Books

... fender. Red curtains to window recess. Shutters or blinds to windows. Armchair and about six other chairs in the room. One old-fashioned settle. One small table. Clock. Decanter of water, half a dozen toddy tumblers. Matches, etc. The only light is a ruddy glow from the fire. Kettle on hob. Moonlight from R. of window when shutter is opened. Practical chandelier from ceiling or lights at side of mantelpiece. DOCTOR'S coat and muffler on chair up L., ...

— The Ghost of Jerry Bundler • W. W. Jacobs and Charles Rock

... arrived, there was a fitful, undecided rain on the face of the land, accompanied by a restless wind, and every gust made a noise like the rattling of dry bones in the stiff toddy palms outside. The khansamah completely lost his head on my arrival. He had served a Sahib once. Did I know that Sahib? He gave me the name of a well-known man who has been buried for more than ...

— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling

... Sir George and I went to the kitchen to drink a hot punch before retiring for the night. I drank a moderate bowl and sat in a large chair before the fire, smoking a pipe of tobacco, while Sir George drank brandy toddy at the massive oak table in the middle of ...

— Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall • Charles Major

... the toddy," Wingo added, always softly, and his eyes always on space. "Raise you ten, suh." This was to the Treasurer. Only the two were playing at present. The Governor was kindly acting as bank; the others were ...

— Red Men and White • Owen Wister

... to the Keep. Helen saw at once that he was moved by some intense feeling, and there was a red spot on his cheeks which she had been accustomed to associate with the dominie's anger. The laird was sitting placidly smoking, and drinking toddy. He had been telling Helen of the grand house he was going to build on the new estate he had just bought; and he was now calmly considering how to carry out his plans on the most magnificent scale, for he had firmly determined there should be neither ...

— Scottish sketches • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

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