toddy

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This toddy is the juice of the palm-oil-tree ('Elaeis Guineensis'), which, when tapped, yields a sweet, clear liquid, not at all intoxicating while fresh, but, when allowed to stand till the afternoon, causes inebriation and many crimes.

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  1. noun A hot toddy.
  2. noun The sweet sap of several tropical Asian palm trees, especially palmyra and Caryota urens, used as a beverage.
  3. noun A liquor fermented from this sap.

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  • Then, having brewed himself an unusually strong mug of whisky-toddy, and brought out with great ceremony a clean pipe, he commenced Alton, laddie, I've been fiechting Philistines for ye the day Ah! —  Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet
  • His wife made him another toddy, and he perspired all night. —  Maigret and the Saturday Caller - Georges Simenon - 87
  • There is great money in them I stopped at Sumatra for cocoanuts and toddy, and just for water at Dragoian. —  Messer Marco Polo
  • When we entered, this toddy was produced in large bamboos, both for our use and that of our attendant Dyaks; I thought it, however, very bad. —  The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
  • He can watch the aurora until his eyes ache; he can sit over a game of cards and a glass of toddy--he can always get the latter up there; he can trim his lamp and chat with his chums and fill his pipe over and over again. —  Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska
 

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  1. Hindi tāṛī, sap of palm, from tāṛ, palm, from Sanskrit tālaḥ, perhaps of Dravidian origin.

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  1. Formerly also taddy, also taree; from Hindustani tāri (with cerebral r, hence also spelled tādi), from tār, Persian tār, a palm-tree, from which this liquor is derived.
 

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