sottish

[ sot-ish ]

/ ˈsɒt ɪʃ /

stupefied with or as if with drink; drunken.

given to excessive drinking.

pertaining to or befitting a sot.

RELATED WORDS

First recorded in 1560–70; sot + -ish¹

Related formssot·tish·ly, adverbsot·tish·ness, noun

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It is the story of an unprincipled boy, a flighty young married woman, and a sottish husband.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 109, October 26, 1895|Various
It was my misfortune to drag on a heavy chain above fifteen years with a sottish yoke-fellow.
Amelia|Henry Fielding
Their feeling and experience sufficiently confuteth all that time-wasters now plead for their sottish prodigality.
A Christian Directory (Volume 1 of 4)|Richard Baxter
I will not argue pro et contra, as do the sottish sophisters of this town and other places.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete.|Francois Rabelais

See where the hosts of Allah charge upon The sottish infidel!
The Mortal Gods and Other Plays|Olive Tilford Dargan

adj.

1560s, "foolish," from sot (-) + -ish. From 1630s as "drunken." Related: sottishly; sottishness.