TODDY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does toddy mean? 

• TODDY (noun)
  The noun TODDY has 1 sense:

1. a mixed drink made of liquor and water with sugar and spices and served hot

  Familiarity information: TODDY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TODDY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mixed drink made of liquor and water with sugar and spices and served hot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

hot toddy; toddy

Hypernyms ("toddy" is a kind of...):

mixed drink (made of two or more ingredients)

Meronyms (substance of "toddy"):

rum (liquor distilled from fermented molasses)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "toddy"):

Tom and Jerry (hot rum toddy with a beaten egg)

 Context examples 

"Hope I didn't hurt you. Here, let me mix a fresh toddy."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He was content to see his friend's cadaverous face opposite him through the steam rising from a tumbler of toddy.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"I'll send one of the youngsters for lemons, and we'll make a toddy," Martin offered.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Brissenden sipped his toddy and smiled appreciation of it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

So Martin unearthed a carbon copy of "Star-dust," and during the reading of it Brissenden chuckled, rubbed his hands, and forgot to sip his toddy.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Under the storm of denunciation Brissenden complacently sipped his toddy and affirmed that everything the other said was quite true, with the exception of the magazine editors.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He joined them and listened attentively to the description of a prize-fight Parry had seen the night before; while Brissenden, in his glory, plunged into the manufacture of a toddy and the serving of wine and whiskey-and-sodas.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)