
This is a hard haiku constraint because TODDY is specific, old-fashioned, and tonally loaded. It pulls the poem toward comic drink-speak unless the surrounding diction builds a world where the word belongs. Debbie Wilson’s “Snort SOUND of contempt / DOWER? Just MODAL fabric… / Need PODGY TODDY” is a good example of handling that well: the constraint words are absorbed into one sharp social register, so TODDY arrives as the poem’s release valve rather than a random beverage noun. Across the set, the stronger entries solve the difficulty by giving the target word a real context — departure, barroom, attic rummage, exhortation, barter, impatience — which keeps the haiku from sounding like it is just steering toward the answer.