Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a drink, esp. brandy.

c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Suit and Cloak, good store of Brandy or any agreable Liquor, let down Gutter-lane.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1809		G. Andrewes Dict. Sl. and Cant.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1821		Egan Life in London (1869) 310: But he praised so highly a cargo of Daffy, which he had just received from the nonpareil, that Daffy and water was the preferred suit.