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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A drunkard.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Foolish; doltish; stupid.
  2. n. A fool; dolt; blockhead; booby.
  3. n. A foolishly infatuated person; a dotard.
  4. n. One whose mind is dulled by excessive drinking; a confirmed drunkard.
  5. To make stupid or foolish; dull.
  6. To infatuate; besot.
  7. To play the sot or toper; tipple.
  8. A dialectal and vulgar variant of sat, preterit and past participle of sit; also of set.

Wiktionary

  1. n. archaic stupid person; fool
  2. n. drunkard
  3. v. To drink until one becomes drunk

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete A stupid person; a blockhead; a dull fellow; a dolt.
  2. n. A person stupefied by excessive drinking; an habitual drunkard.
  3. adj. obsolete Sottish; foolish; stupid; dull.
  4. v. rare To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot.
  5. v. rare To tipple to stupidity.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a chronic drinker

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, fool, from Old English sott, from Old French sot. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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