Toco (or Toko), subs. (common).—Chastisement: hence to give TOCO=to thrash.
1823. Bee, Dict. Turf, s.v. toco. If . . . Blackee gets a whip about his back, why he has caught toco.
1857. Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays, 1. v. The school leaders come up furious, and administer toco to the wretched fags.
1893. Milliken, 'Arry Ballads. When a reglar Primroser gits toko, one wonders wot next there will come.
TOD, subs. (American).—A drink; a 'toddy.'
1861. Winthrop, Cecil Dreeme, xiv. Selleridge's was full of fire-company boys, taking their tods after a run.
1862. Artemus Ward: His Book (1899), 37. Ef your peple take their tods, say Mister Ward is as Jenial a feller as we ever met. Ibid., 82. He liked his tods too well, however.
To-day. See Baker.
Toddle, subs. (colloquial).—A walk, a saunter: also as verb (or to do A toddle)=(1) to be off (Grose), and (2) to totter along: as an invalid or child. Hence TODDLES(TODDLEKINS or LITTLE toddler)=an endearment to a little child.
1783. Johnson [Boswell, Life, ætat 74]. I should like . . . to have a cottage in your park, toddle about, live mostly on milk and be taken care of by Mrs. Boswell.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Toddle . . . The cove was touting, but stagging the traps he toddled.
1816. Scott, Antiquary, xliv. And the bits o' weans that come toddling to play wi' me.
1823. Egan, Randall's Scrap Book. Oft may we hear thy cheerful footsteps sound, And see us toddle in with heart elate. Ibid. (1827), Anec. Turf, 179. She was just about to toddle to the gin-spinners for the ould folks and lisp out for a quartern of Max.
1829. Vidocq's Memoirs, 'On the Prigging Lay' [Farmer, Musa Pedestris (1896), 107. I stops a bit: then toddled quicker, For I'd prigged his reader, drawn his ticker.
1855. Thackeray, Newcomes, liii. Children who are accomplished shop-lifters and liars almost as soon as they can toddle and speak. Ibid. (1862), Philip, xvi. One of the children . . . was toddling by her side.
1856. Eliot, Janet's Repentance, iii. When I was a little toddle Mr. and Mrs. Crewe used to let me play about in their garden.
1862. Trollope, Orley Farm, xv. Her daily little toddle through the town.
1872. Blackmore, Maid of Sker, v. What did the little thing do but . . . set off in the bravest toddle.
1885. Queen, 26 Sept. A few tolerable toddlekins in the intermediate cabins.
1891. Pall Mall Gaz., 3 July, i. 2. The 'great Trek' . . . has toddled out of the little end of the horn.
1901. Referee, 14 Ap., 9. 2. Hundreds of tiny toddles in their white pinnies . . . were dancing together to a piano-organ.
1901. Walker, In the Blood, 113. So ter-morrer me and Joe, my mate, do a little toddle round arter we see the lights go out.
Toddy, subs. (Grose and Bee).—Originally, the juice of the cocoa tree; afterwards, rum, water, sugar, and nutmeg; now generic for a hot drink of any kind of spirits, as whiskey-TODDY, rum-TODDY, gin-TODDY, etc.
Toddy-blossom, subs. phr. (common).—A GROG-BLOSSOM (q.V.); a RUM-BUD (q.V.).
Toddy-stick, subs. phr. (common).—A muddler.
Todge, subs. (provincial).—Stodge: as verb=to smash; to pulp (Grose).
