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

• sottishness
  noun
• sottishly
  adverb

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

To all the shallow sophistries or sottish errors, that tended to falsify his glorious dream of world-wide British unity, Franklin presented a merciless intellect.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell

Deering's grin was sottish, the fellow was grossly fat, and he fixed his greedy glance on Stannard's note-book.

From Northwest! by Bindloss, Harold

This Prince, however dull and sottish, might have sense enough to see that be could no where be in a worse condition than he was in his Native Country.

From An Enquiry into the Truth of the Tradition, Concerning the Discovery of America, by Prince Madog ab Owen Gwynedd, about the Year, 1170 by Williams, John

Fair promises, with certain drawbacks, are made to children of the twenty-third day; and infants of the twenty-fourth day will be good-tempered, perhaps sottish.

From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by Grant, James, archaeologist