Brewer's: Toddy

A favourite Scotch beverage compounded of spirits, hot water, and sugar. The word is a corruption of taudi, the Indian name for the saccharine juice of palm spathes. The Sanskrit is toldi or taldi, from tal (palm juice). (Rhind Vegetable Kingdom.)

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