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Toddy

Definition: Toddy

Toddy

Noun

1. 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)


Specialty Definition: Toddy

DomainDefinition

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.

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Synonym: Toddy

Synonym: hot toddy (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Toddy

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Toddy

English words defined with "toddy": arak, arrackhot toddyPalm toddy, Palm winetoddy alm, Toddy bird, Toddy cat, toddy palm, Tom and Jerry. (references)
Specialty definitions using "toddy": Rod-menTODDY. (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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Modern Usage: Toddy

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Father's Hot Toddy (1912)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Toddy

DomainTitle

Books

  • Hot Toddy (Thorndike Large Print General Series) [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

  • Toddy (Orphan Train West) [ABRIDGED] (reference)

  • Toddy and the Fox (Rainbow's End Series) (reference)

  • Toddy Bear's Good Food Book (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Toddy

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

In the great Cork Labour tradition : Toddy O'Sullivan. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: Toddy

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1397,576

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Toddy

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
ToddyLast name17041,845
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Toddy

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Toddy

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: Toddy

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

   

Portuguese

  

ponche (punch), grogue quente, grogue (grog, groggy). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

тодди (toddies). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

vrsta alkoholnog pića. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ponche caliente, ponche (punch), grog (grog). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

toddy (grog, punch), palmvin (palm wine). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sıcak su ve şekerli içki, hurma içkisi, hurma ağacı özü. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

тодді, пунш (punch), пальмовий сік. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Toddy

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).

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Rhyming with "Toddy"

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)

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Anagrams: Toddy

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Toddy


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 6F 64 64 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    ---    -..    -..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01101111 01100100 01100100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#111 &#100 &#100 &#121

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5481707091

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Usage Frequency
8. Names: Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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