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tadie

tadie is the obsolete form of toddy.

Meaning of toddy

Noun

toddy (countable and uncountable, plural toddies)

  1. (dated) The sweet sap from any of several tropical trees fermented to make an alcoholic drink.
    • […] the cocoa-nut tree yields a pure draught from a dry and barren land; a cup of water to the temperate and thirsty traveler; a cup of cream from the pressed kernel; a cup of refreshing and sparkling toddy to the early riser; […]1873 [1855], Samuel White Baker, Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon, J. B. Lippincott & Co., pages 272–273
  2. (India, South) The drink itself.
    Synonyms:
    palm wine

Questions about tadie

What is tadie the obsolete form of?
Tadie is the obsolete form of toddy.

Words near tadie in the dictionary

  1. tadger
  2. tadgers
  3. tadges
  4. Tadian
  5. Tadiangan
  6. tadie
  7. tadig
  8. Tading
  9. Tadjik
  10. Tadjikistan
  11. Tadjiks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tadie (page history and authors); toddy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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