a drink made with strong alcohol, sugar, hot water and sometimes spices 托迪酒(用烈酒加糖、热水或香料等调配而成) Word Originearly 17th cent. (originally referring to the naturally alcoholic sap of some kinds of palm, drunk in tropical countries): from Marathi (a language spoken in the western Indian state of Maharashtra) tāḍī, Hindi tāṛī, from Sanskrit tād̲ī ‘palmyra’ (a type of palm tree).