Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A drunkard.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Foolish; doltish; stupid.
- n. A fool; dolt; blockhead; booby.
- n. A foolishly infatuated person; a dotard.
- n. One whose mind is dulled by excessive drinking; a confirmed drunkard.
- To make stupid or foolish; dull.
- To infatuate; besot.
- To play the sot or toper; tipple.
- A dialectal and vulgar variant of sat, preterit and past participle of sit; also of set.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A stupid person; a blockhead; a dull fellow; a dolt.
- n. A person stupefied by excessive drinking; an habitual drunkard.
- adj. obsolete Sottish; foolish; stupid; dull.
- v. rare To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot.
- v. rare To tipple to stupidity.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a chronic drinker
Etymologies
- Middle English, fool, from Old English sott, from Old French sot. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The client is paying you for rights to the work including marketing it with their name sot I believe this is ethical.”
“Soveraigne Prince, be his weaknesses what they will, to be called a sot, which methinks was very prettily said.”
“I'm the "sot" you need to be "outing" and I can't even follow your "clues" to reveal the identity of ME, you waste-of-real-estate.”
Hit Me Up Wih A Donation, Y'all..So I Can Fight City Hall on Friday
“He has always scoffed and scolded and sworn at the mere mention of the business, and his opinions are very "sot," as the”
“He then 'sot' down in a 'cheer' and looked like a man condemned to be hung; then she whipped me with the cowhide until I sunk to the floor.”
“My fancy was in such good working trim that before I knew it I kicked the wagon wheel, and I certainly got as warm as the most "sot" Scientist that ever read Mrs. Eddy could possibly wish.”
“County, Alabama, she wasn't free but was 'sot' free later.”
“She is still the same efficient and self-obliterating mainstay of the kitchen that she ever was, but she grows more "sot" in her ways, more averse to any change in her daily routine, and more despairing of ever finally and completely capturing that canny old Scotsman whom we still so affectionately designate as”
“It was another of his principles, and Caleb had a deserved reputation for adhering to principle and being "sot" in his ways.”
“He was "sot" now, and although Hannah continued to protest and declare she could not do such”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sot’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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funny & derogatory
WARNING: VERY EXPLICIT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
funny derogatory names, quotes, phrases.
( open list, randomness, ad hom, ad hominem )
also see:
buttfucking quitter, dirty sanchez, donkey punch, falcon punch, assbadger, unicorn turd, assclown, fudgenut, quackery, friggin homo, buttmuncher, jackwagon and 292 more... -
3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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3 Letter Words
A list of English words that are three letters long.
ace, act, ade, ado, add, ads, age, ago, ail, air, aim, all and 397 more...
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scoundrels and bastards
already several of these lists, but I wanted my own
varlet, scoundrel, slubberdegullion, bastard, hooligan, boor, churl, thug, cad, ne'er-do-well, miscreant, minx and 86 more...
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What is a man?
Masculine archetypes and stereotypes, glorifications and vilifications.
This is in line with Femmesque, though narrower in its aim. I want simply the loaded nouns that denote a man's...cuckold, provider, rapist, messiah, hero, demon lover, animus, the man in the bu..., loser, mr. right, stud, bloke and 18 more...
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Sot
a partaker of a dram too many. consult also whichbe's Drunkie list
sot, toper, drunkard, boozehound, tosspot, wino, lick-wimble, souse, lush, alky, juicer, inebriate and 47 more...
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3LW
3 letter words, not the girl band.
boggle and speed scrabble would not be half as fun without them.aah, boa, dot, fun, ick, log, oca, pyx, sos, was, aal, bob and 342 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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NTDW1
template, modal, sublingual, tandem, polycentric, septuagenarian, token, irrevocable, denotive, augural, aberrant, phlebotomy and 1188 more...
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madmelanie's Words
monkey, folderol, snark, snarky, flibbertigibbet, faith, asshat, pirouette, avuncular, exegesis, memento mori, verisimilitude and 379 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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Ptolemy's Gate
Words and phrases from Jonathan Stroud's book, Ptolemy's Gate.
fall afoul, fleet, tamarisk, krait, inkstone, hotted up, down-market, have a truck with, brio, fatalistic, knock-kneed, conserve and 210 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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The Lies of Locke Lamora
Words and phrases from Scott Lynch's book, The Lies of Locke Lamora
constable, windfall, sternum, commensurate, disinter, grotty, thresher shark, savvy, miser, reticent, magnanimous, trowel and 301 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for sot.
madmouth AAAND it's the abbreviation for the Society of Toxicology! :D Jun 25, 2009
madmouth also applies to other addictions (e.g. opium sot) Apr 13, 2009