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

A more sottish crew of rakes you never saw.

From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

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

All's but naught, Patience is sottish, and impatience does Become a dog that's mad.

From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)