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English Dictionary: Toddy by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
toddy
n
  1. a mixed drink made of liquor and water with sugar and spices and served hot
    Synonym(s): hot toddy, toddy
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Toddy \Tod"dy\, n. [Formed from Hind. t[be][?][c6] the juice of
      the palmyra tree, popularly, toddy, fr. t[be][?] the palmyra
      tree, Skr. t[be]la.]
      1. A juice drawn from various kinds of palms in the East
            Indies; or, a spirituous liquor procured from it by
            fermentation.
  
      2. 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} (Zo[94]l.), a weaver bird of the East Indies and
            India: -- so called from its fondness for the juice of the
            palm.
  
      {Toddy cat} (Zo[94]l.), the common paradoxure; the palm cat.
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