sot

[sot]

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noun

a drunkard.

Origin of sot

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

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Related Words for sot

sponge, alcoholic, tippler, drunk, lush, inebriate, boozer, wino, drinker, carouser, guzzler, dipsomaniac

Examples from the Web for sot

Historical Examples of sot

And she sot off for the school-house that evenin' a-walkin' a foot.
Samantha Among the Brethren, Part 4.
Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)
Maybe it's because I hain't hed much to do with 'em that I'm sot on 'em.
A Little Book of Profitable Tales
Eugene Field
Wall, I sot down a minnit to think it over, and then the trouble commenced.
Uncles Josh's Punkin Centre Stories
Cal Stewart
And she was sot and he was sotter, and at last they quarreled.
The Depot Master
Joseph C. Lincoln
A feller gits sort of sot in his ways, and it's hard to give in to the other chap.
Cap'n Eri
Joseph Crosby Lincoln

British Dictionary definitions for sot

sot

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

sot

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

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.