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
   • Moti Guj was very fond of liquor—arrack for choice, though he would drink palm-tree toddy if nothing better offered.1891 August, Rudyard Kipling, “Moti Guj–Mutineer”, in Life’s Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., […], published October 1891, →OCLC, page 308
2. (India, South) The drink itself.

   Synonyms:

   palm wine