Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A hot drink consisting of rum or another liquor, a beaten egg, milk or water, sugar, and spices.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • A hot sweetened drink of rum and water spiced with cinnamon, cloves, etc., and beaten up with eggs.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A cocktail composed of eggnog, brandy, rum and an egg.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun hot rum toddy with a beaten egg

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Corinthian Tom, and , Jerry, Hawthorn, characters in Life in London, a novel by Pierce Egan (1772–1849).]

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  • "A hot sweetened drink of rum and water spiced with cinnamon, cloves, etc., and beaten up with eggs."

    --GNU Webster's 1913

    April 8, 2011

  • Hey There's also the show!

    (why can't I catch that dumb mouse!)

    July 12, 2012