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tod⋅dy

  [tod-ee]
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–noun, plural -dies.
1. a drink made of alcoholic liquor and hot water, sweetened and sometimes spiced with cloves.
2. the drawn sap, esp. when fermented, of any of several toddy palms, used as a drink.
Origin:
1600–10; < Hindi tāḍi
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tod·dy   (tŏd'ē)   
n.   pl. tod·dies

  1. A hot toddy.

    1. The sweet sap of several tropical Asian palm trees, especially palmyra and Caryota urens, used as a beverage.

    2. A liquor fermented from this sap.


[Hindi tāṛī, sap of palm, from tāṛ, palm, from Sanskrit tālaḥ, perhaps of Dravidian origin.]
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Word Origin & History

toddy 
1620, alteration of taddy (1611), tarrie (1609) "beverage made from fermented palm sap," from Hindi tari "palm sap" (in which the -r- sounds close to an Eng. -d-), from tar "palm tree," from Skt. tala-s, probably from a Dravidian language (cf. Kannada tar, Telugu tadu). Meaning "beverage made of alcoholic liquor with hot water, sugar, and spices" first recorded 1786.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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