sottish

American  

[sot-ish] / ˈsɒt ɪʃ /

adjective

1. stupefied with or as if with drink; drunken.

2. given to excessive drinking.

3. pertaining to or befitting a sot.

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Other Word Forms

• sottishly
  adverb
• sottishness
  noun

Etymology

Origin of sottish

First recorded in 1560–70; sot + -ish ¹

Example Sentences

Charming Sebastian had wound up as sottish handyman to a kindly abbot in a Spanish monastery.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was no mistake about it—every man was at once convinced of this from the vicar down to the most sottish of the anti-temperance gathering.

From True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best by Helm, D. A.

The Easy Chair has seen such frantic gobbling at a railway eating-room that it could only gaze in wonder at the sottish and, so to speak, drunken eating.

From From the Easy Chair, series 2 by Curtis, George William

My Grandfather was not at all of Montaigne's opinion that order in the management of life is sottish, but looked upon it rather as "Heaven's first law."

From Our Philadelphia by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins

Here there were hungry faces, sottish faces, sickly faces, and an endless pushing and jostling around the costermongers' barrows.

From A Vanished Hand by Doudney, Sarah