sot
- a drunkard.
Origin of sot
Related Words for sots
sponge, alcoholic, tippler, drunk, lush, inebriate, boozer, wino, drinker, carouser, guzzler, dipsomaniacExamples 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 DaughterMetta V. Victor
The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused.
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 WagonEmerson 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 IgnoranceJohn Foster
sot
1- a habitual or chronic drunkard
- a person stupefied by or as if by drink
Word Origin for sot
sot
2- Scot indeed: used to contradict a negative statementI am not! — You are sot!
Word Origin for sot
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.