Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A drunkard.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Foolish; doltish; stupid.
- noun A fool; dolt; blockhead; booby
- noun A foolishly infatuated person; a dotard.
- noun One whose mind is dulled by excessive drinking; a confirmed drunkard.
- A dialectal and vulgar variant of
sat , preterit and past participle of sit; also of set. - To make stupid or foolish; dull.
- To infatuate; besot.
- To play the sot or toper; tipple.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A stupid person; a blockhead; a dull fellow; a dolt.
- noun A person stupefied by excessive drinking; an habitual drunkard.
- transitive verb rare To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot.
- adjective obsolete Sottish; foolish; stupid; dull.
- intransitive verb rare To tipple to stupidity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic
stupid person;fool - noun
drunkard - verb To
drink until one becomesdrunk
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a chronic drinker
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The client is paying you for rights to the work including marketing it with their name sot I believe this is ethical.
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Soveraigne Prince, be his weaknesses what they will, to be called a sot, which methinks was very prettily said.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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Soveraigne Prince, be his weaknesses what they will, to be called a sot, which methinks was very prettily said.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1663 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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I'm the "sot" you need to be "outing" and I can't even follow your "clues" to reveal the identity of ME, you waste-of-real-estate.
Hit Me Up Wih A Donation, Y'all..So I Can Fight City Hall on Friday 2006
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County, Alabama, she wasn't free but was 'sot' free later.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration
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He has always scoffed and scolded and sworn at the mere mention of the business, and his opinions are very "sot," as the
Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes Maud Wilder Goodwin
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He then 'sot' down in a 'cheer' and looked like a man condemned to be hung; then she whipped me with the cowhide until I sunk to the floor.
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My fancy was in such good working trim that before I knew it I kicked the wagon wheel, and I certainly got as warm as the most "sot" Scientist that ever read Mrs. Eddy could possibly wish.
Letters of a Woman Homesteader Elinore Pruitt Stewart
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She is still the same efficient and self-obliterating mainstay of the kitchen that she ever was, but she grows more "sot" in her ways, more averse to any change in her daily routine, and more despairing of ever finally and completely capturing that canny old Scotsman whom we still so affectionately designate as
The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912
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It was another of his principles, and Caleb had a deserved reputation for adhering to principle and being "sot" in his ways.
Thankful's Inheritance Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
madmouth commented on the word sot
also applies to other addictions (e.g. opium sot)
April 13, 2009
madmouth commented on the word sot
AAAND it's the abbreviation for the Society of Toxicology! :D
June 25, 2009