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Definition: Toddy |
ToddyNoun1. Liquor and water with sugar and spices and served hot. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "toddy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of taking a toddy, foretells interesting events will soon change your plan of living. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Slang in 1811 | TODDY. Originally the juice of the cocoa tree, and afterwards rum, water, sugar, and nutmeg. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: ToddySynonym: hot toddy (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Wine, spirits, liqueur, beer, ale, malt liquor, Sir John Barleycorn, stingo, heavy wet; grog, toddy, flip, purl, punch, negus, cup, bishop, wassail; gin; (intoxicating liquor); coffee, chocolate, cocoa, tea, the cup that cheers but not inebriates; bock beer, lager beer, Pilsener beer, schenck beer; Brazil tea, cider, claret, ice water, mate, mint julep; near beer. beer, non-alcoholic beverage. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Toddy |
| English words defined with "toddy": arak, arrack ♦ hot toddy ♦ Palm toddy, Palm wine ♦ toddy alm, Toddy bird, Toddy cat, toddy palm, Tom and Jerry. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "toddy": Rod-men ♦ TODDY. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Toddy" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Swedish (grog, punch, toddy). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Father's Hot Toddy (1912) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | In the great Cork Labour tradition : Toddy O'Sullivan. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Toddy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Toddy" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "toddy" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Toddy | Last name | 170 | 41,845 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "toddy": hot toddy ♦ palm toddy ♦ rum toddy ♦ toddy alm ♦ Toddy bird ♦ Toddy cat ♦ toddy palm. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hot toddy | 45 |
toddy | 29 |
coffee toddy | 16 |
toddy coffee maker | 12 |
hot toddy recipe | 10 |
toddy walters | 6 |
body toddy ultra | 5 |
master toddy | 5 |
toddy maker | 5 |
hotty toddy | 4 |
brook course golf toddy | 3 |
body toddy | 3 |
brook toddy | 3 |
mineral toddy | 3 |
brook golf toddy | 3 |
toddy tee | 3 |
pond toddy | 2 |
coffee system toddy | 2 |
puller toddy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "toddy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | punsh (grog), lëng palmës, grog (grog). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مشروب ساخن, التودية عصارة النخيل الطازجة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | вид подсладен пунш, палмов сок. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | palmové víno, grog (grog), druh punèe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | toddy, grog (calcined clay, grog). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | grog. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | عرق خرماکه بااب گرم مخلوطشود. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | toti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | grog. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Grog (grog, rum toddy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αλκοολούχο ποτό με λεμόνι, θερμό ηδύποτο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | משק" תמרים. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | puncs (punch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | grog (grog). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | toddee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oddytay ponche (punch), grogue quente, grogue (grog, groggy). (various references) тодди (toddies). (various references) vrsta alkoholnog pića. (various references) ponche caliente, ponche (punch), grog (grog). (various references) toddy (grog, punch), palmvin (palm wine). (various references) sıcak su ve şekerli içki, hurma içkisi, hurma ağacı özü. (various references) тодді, пунш (punch), пальмовий сік. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Toddy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: doddy, goddy, loddy, oddy, stoddy, taddy, tdd, tdy, teddi, tiddy, toddie, Todds, todi, todt, toidy, toody, trody, Tydd, Tyddyn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "toddy" (pronounced 'Tod"dy'): Bendy, BRANDY, Cloddy, Coddymoddy, Crowdy, Daddy, Dandy, findy, Hendy, howdy, Maundy, middy, Milady, Neddy, noddy, Overhardy, Pandowdy, Predy, Quandy, Rody, rowdy, shindy, Shreddy, soddy, Stiddy, tody, Twaddy, Tydy, untidy, Widdy. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-o-t-y" | |
-1 letter: doty, tody. | |
-2 letters: dot, odd, tod, toy, yod. | |
-3 letters: do, od, oy, to, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-o-t-y" | |
+1 letter: oddity. | |
+2 letters: athodyd. | |
+3 letters: additory, athodyds, dotardly. | |
+4 letters: destroyed, devotedly, hydathode. | |
+5 letters: copyedited, dedicatory, dehydrator, dicynodont, diphyodont, hydathodes, outdatedly, outyielded. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 6F 64 64 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- --- -.. -.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101111 01100100 01100100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T o d d y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 006F 0064 0064 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5481707091 |
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