toddy

a beverage composed of whiskey or other spirituous liquor with hot water and sugar.

//Mr Hubert and Uncle Buck had a toddy, then Mr Hubert finally sent to tell the boy on the gate-post he could quit blowing, and he and Uncle Buck had another toddy and Uncle Buck still saying, "I just want my nigger. Then we got to get on back toward home//" (GDM 11).

"//En you's about sick too," Dilsey says. "You looks like a hant. You git in bed and I'll fix you a toddy and see kin you sleep. I bet you ain't had a full night's sleep since you lef'//" (TSAF 199).

–Greta Bowers