sot

[ sot ]

/ sɒt /

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noun

a drunkard.

Nearby words

Origin of sot

before 1000; Middle English: fool, Old English sott < Medieval Latin sottus < ?

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Examples from the Web for sot

Probably later, in New England, some of them were by their neighbors said to be 'sot.'
The Debatable Land|Arthur Colton
He gets worse as he grows older—more 'sot' in his ways, as your mother would say.
The Shadow of Victory|Myrtle Reed
Turgot, she confessed, was an honest man, but he was also a 'sot animal.'
Books and Characters|Lytton Strachey
Both men are what Mrs. Meakin calls 'sot,' and I foresee some jarring of wheels, so to speak, before they run smooth.
The Brass Bound Box|Evelyn Raymond

You know, Mr. Stone is as 'sot as the everlasting hills'—and it takes something to move the hills, you know.
Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest|Alice B. Emerson

British Dictionary definitions for sot

sot

/ (sɒt) /

noun

a habitual or chronic drunkard

a person stupefied by or as if by drink

Derived Formssottish, adjective

Word Origin for sot

Old English, from Medieval Latin sottus; compare French sot a fool

adverb

Scot indeed: used to contradict a negative statementI am not! — You are sot!

Word Origin for sot

a variant of so 1, altered to rhyme with not

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Word Origin and History for sot

sot

late Old English sott "stupid person, fool," from Old French sot, from Gallo-Romance *sott- (cf. Medieval Latin sottus, c.800), of uncertain origin, with cognates from Portugal to Germany. Surviving meaning "one who is stupefied with drink" first recorded 1590s. As a verb, it is attested from c.1200, but usually besot.