sot

[sot]

noun

a drunkard.

Origin of sot

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

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Related Words for sots

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

Examples from the Web for sots

Historical Examples of sots

These sots see nothing in their wassal-bowl, but the wine and its spices.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 1 (of 4)
Jane Porter
Sech sights as I see yesterday is 'nuff to unsettle anybody as sots dar heart on de tings ob dis worl'.
Alice Wilde: The Raftman's Daughter
Metta V. Victor
The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused.
The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Various
That sots her down, an' she holds good enough to stay in till I ram the muzzle inter ha'r an' let go.
The Covered Wagon
Emerson Hough
There is very nearly an absolute certainty of success in the method for making clowns, sots, vagabonds, and ruffians.
An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance
John Foster

British Dictionary definitions for sots

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 sots

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.