sottish

[sot-ish]

adjective

Origin of sottish

First recorded in 1560–70; sot + -ish¹

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

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Ines up at the castle smelt of beer, and his eyelids were sottish.
The Amazing Marriage, Complete
George Meredith
See where the hosts of Allah charge upon The sottish infidel!
The Mortal Gods and Other Plays
Olive Tilford Dargan
And can any be so sottish, as to think all those things the productions of chance?
Micrographia
Robert Hooke
One of these enjoyments is indolence itself,—a sottish, half-drunken indolence.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65, No. 403, May, 1849
Various
Gabriel strove to restrain himself from breaking out into brutal language about the sottish Malins and his pound.
Dubliners
James Joyce

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