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toddy, n.|ˈtɒdɪ|
Forms: α. 7 tarrie, tary, 7–8 terry, 9 taree, tarea; β. 7 tadie, -ee, taddy; γ. 7 toddey, toddie, 7– toddy.
[ad. Hind. tāṛī (with cerebral r, approaching English d), f. Hind. tār palm-tree:—Skr. tâla palmyra.]
1. The sap obtained from the incised spathes of various species of palm, esp. Caryota urens, the wild date, the coco-nut, and the palmyra, used as a beverage in tropical countries; also, the intoxicating liquor produced by its fermentation.
α1609–10W. Finch in Purchas Pilgrims (1625) I. 436 A goodly Countrey..abounding with wild Date Trees..whence they draw a liquor called Tarrie or Sure. 1662J. Davies tr. Mandelslo's Trav. 23 In this Village we found some Terry. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. iii. i. vi. 16 They make a strong water also of tary which they distil. 1850Directions Rev. Off. N.W. Prov. 225 The Taree or juice of the Palm Tree is liable to duty, in its fermented or unfermented state.
β1611N. Dounton in Purchas Pilgrims (1625) I. iii. xii. §4. 298 Palmita wine, which they call Taddy. 1615in Calr. Col. Pap., E. Ind. (1862) 386 A wine called Tadie, distilled from the Palmetto trees. 1626Purchas Pilgrimage v. (ed. 4) 539 Goodly Villages full of trees, yeelding Taddy. 1678Phillips (ed. 4), Taddy, a sort of pleasant juice issuing out of a spungy Tree.
γ1620in Foster Eng. Factories India (1906) 185 Excessive drincking of toddy. 1622Ibid. (1908) II. 144 All stragglinge libertyes and discontented toddey pott companyons. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 6 [At Sierra Leone] they were often presented with Flowres, Fruits, Toddy, and like things. 1655E. Terry Voy. E. Indies 97 A very pleasant and clear liquor, called Toddie. 1732Pike in Phil. Trans. XXXVII. 235 Instead of Toddy, which is a Sort of Palm-Wine, the Liquor from the Birch-Tree comes near to it. 1770Cook Voy. round World iii. xi. (1773) 689 A kind of wine, called toddy, is procured from this tree [fan-palm], by cutting the buds which are to produce flowers, soon after their appearance, and tying under them small baskets, made of the leaves, which are so close as to hold liquids without leaking. 1885G. S. Forbes Wild Life in Canara 253 The Khonds drink a great deal of ‘toddy’, drawn from the sago palm.
2. a. A beverage composed of whisky or other spirituous liquor with hot water and sugar.
Often distinguished by prefixing the name of the chief ingredient, as brandy-toddy, gin-toddy, rum-toddy, whisky-toddy.
1786Burns Holy Fair xx, The lads an' lasses, blythely bent, To mind baith saul an' body, Sit round the table, weel content, An' steer about the toddy. [Brit. Mus. MS. copy of 1785 in Burns's own handwriting has lines 2 and 4 ‘Their lowan thirst an drowth tae quench’,..‘And steer about the punch’.] 1788Grose Dict. Vulg. T. (ed. 2), Toddy, originally the juice of the cocoa tree, and afterwards rum, water, sugar, and nutmeg. 1798Root's Amer. Law Rep. I. 80 For giving her a dose in some toddy, to intoxicate and inflame her passions. 1808Sporting Mag. XXXII. 215 Punch is certainly wholesomer than..toddy, which is grog with the addition of sugar. 1809A. Wilson Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) I. 158 A tumbler of toddy is usually the morning's beverage of the inhabitants [Paisley]. 1818Todd J.'s Dict., Toddy..3. In low language, a kind of punch, or mixture of spirits and water. 1820Rum-toddy [see rum n.1 3]. 1859Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 7 A stiff tumbler of brandy toddy. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. vi, They took to more toddy and singing Scotch songs. 1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 402 A few spoonfuls of hot brandy or whisky toddy.
b. With a and pl. A glass of this beverage.
1863S. L. J. Life in South fr. Commencement of War I. xv. 299 Your parents do not encourage toddies. 1894Blackw. Mag. July 75, I drank more than one toddy.
3. attrib. and Comb.
a. From sense 1, toddy-fruit, toddy-shop, toddy-wine; toddy-bird, any of various E. Indian birds, as Ploceus baya, which feed on the sap of palms; see also toddy-shrike; toddy-cat = palm-cat a. (palm n.1); toddy-cuttter, see quot.; toddy-drawer = toddy-man; † toddy-fly, see quot. c 1711; toddy-maker = toddy-man; toddy-man, a man engaged in the collection or preparation of toddy from palms; toddy-palm, any palm that yields toddy; spec. Caryota urens, and the wild date-tree of India, Phœnix sylvestris; also applied to the coco-nut tree and palmyra; toddy-shrike, the palmyra swallow (Artamus fuscus); toddy-tapper = toddy-man; toddy-tapping, the collection of toddy from palms; toddy-tree, a tree that yields toddy; = toddy-palm.
1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 76 margin, The Ingenuity of the *Toddy Bird. 1864–5Wood Homes without H. xiii. (1868) 249 This is the nest of the Baya Sparrow, sometimes called the Toddy Bird.
1867Jerdon Mammals India 127 It [Tree-cat] is very abundant in the Carnatic and Malabar coast, where it is popularly called the *Toddy-cat, in consequence of its fondness for the juice of the palm.
1839T. Beale Sperm Whale 339 Persons..called by the English sailors ‘*toddy-cutters’, are employed..for obtaining the juice of the cocoa nut tree. Ibid. 340 The ‘Toddy-cutter’..cuts off the end of the fructifying bud... He then places under the wounded part a long empty bamboo.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 1257 When the flowering branch is half shot, the *toddy-drawers bind the stock round with a young coco-nut leaf.
1681Grew Musæum i. vii. §2. 162 The *Toddy-Fly..hath but two Horns. c1711Petiver Gazophyl. vii. 70 The Toddy Fly,..30 or 40 of them together, sawing thro' the Bark by the Help of their Snout-horn, will make themselves drunk with the Liquor that flows down.
1902Blackw. Mag. May 606/2 An over-ripe *toddy-fruit fell off from a tall palm.
1821J. Leyden tr. Malay Annals 151 There was a *toddy-maker, who went to amuse himself on the sea.
1866Treas. Bot. 157/2 As soon as a spike makes its appearance..a *toddyman..securely binds it with thongs so that it cannot expand.
1900Daily News 9 Mar. 6/2 A talking of the breezes in the tops of the *toddy palms.
1842W. T. Humphrey Let. to Presbyters in Madras 10 With as little ceremony as if walking into a *toddy shop.
1937Discovery May 143/2 It [sc. coconut shell] is an indispensable part of the *toddy-tapper's outfit, for it is in a coconut shell that he carries his cinnamon leaf paste and his lime for the purpose of stimulating the reluctant flowers to give up their sweet nectar. 1971National Geographic Mar. 355/2 Ko Than Shwe, like many men around Pagan, is a toddy tapper.
1946Nature 5 Oct. 493/2 *Toddy-tapping is a popular occupation as it only occupies a small portion of the day. 1958Contributions to Indian Sociology II. 54 Toddy-tapping and the taking of animal life are associated with low status.
1632R. Cartwright in St. Papers Col., E. Ind. 291 Order 2 pago[das] worth of *toddy trees. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. 29 The Toddy Tree is not unlike the Date or Palmeto. 1816‘Quiz’ Grand Master ii. 44 note, Toddy tree, the Indian name for the cocoa-nut tree.
1672W. Hughes Amer. Physit. 59 It is called by some the Mamin-Tree, or the Mamee-Tree; by others of the Planters Toddie-Tree: and the liquor or Wine that runneth out is called *Toddie-Wine, or Mamee-Wine. 1971National Geographic Mar. 358/1 Juice collected at 8 a.m. ferments to toddy wine by 5 that evening.
b. From sense 2, toddy-drinker, toddy-drinking, toddy-glass, toddy-jug, toddy-maker, toddy-sap, toddy-stirrer; toddy-kettle, see quot.; toddy-ladle, (a) see quot.; (b) a name for the American aloe (Cent. Dict.); toddy-lifter, a device used in the manner of a pipette to transfer hot toddy from a bowl to a glass; toddy-stick, a spatula, usually of glass or metal, for stirring toddy.
1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal vii, In the North he may become a confirmed *toddy-drinker.
1838Chambers's Jrnl. 3 Mar. 48/1 The universal practice of *toddy-drinking among the middle classes in the country towns.
1857Hughes Tom Brown ii. ix, Soiled with the marks of *toddy-glasses and tobacco-ashes.
1865Alex. Smith Summer in Skye I. 110 The *toddy-jugs were drained.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Toddy-kettle, a small hot-water kettle used in Scotland for making toddy.
Ibid., *Toddy-ladle, a small deep spoon or ladle, used in Scotland for conveying whisky-toddy from a rummer or punch-bowl to a wine-glass.
1923Classical Q. July–Oct. 173 The ‘*Toddy-lifter’, known in Scotch and Irish households during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a bulbous glass cylinder, is exactly the instrument [sc. the clepsydra] described here. 1954E. M. Elville Paperweights x. 107 A toddy-lifter was something like a miniature decanter in shape, with a body large enough to hold a glassful of liquid. 1970G. Savage Dict. Antiques 430/1 The toddy-lifter was dipped into the bowl and allowed to fill through the hole in the bottom. The thumb was then placed over the upper orifice, air-pressure keeping the contents from flowing out.
1812W. Tennant Anster F. ii. lxix. 50 By the social fires Sit many, cuddling round their *toddy-sap.
1840Picayune (New Orleans) 4 Oct. 2/5 A ‘*toddy stick’ is as spirit-stirring an article as any poet can boast. 1845S. Judd Margaret i. vi, A small counter covered with tumblers and toddy-sticks.
Hence ˈtoddy v., trans. to intoxicate with toddy; ˈtoddyize v., trans. to cause to drink toddy.
1836T. Hook G. Gurney (1850) III. iii. 362, I submitted myself to be toddyised according to his will and pleasure. a1849Poe W. E. Channing Wks. 1864 III. 239 Better things than getting toddied are to be expected of Socrates. |