sot

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And off we sot, at the rate of sixteen notts an hour.

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  1. noun A drunkard.

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  • Don't want to turn into a stereotype Stereotype The Irish sot, and the scorned woman Willie still being difficult Still. —  Muller, Marcia - [14] Wolf in the shadows
  • A lettered sot, a drunkard in a gown My grandfather did not replace Dr. Hilliard at the Hall, afterwards saying the prayers himself. —  Richard Carvel
  • That he is grown a drunken sot, and drinks with nobody but Troutbecke, whom nobody else will keep company with. —  The Diary of Samuel Pepys, November 1666
  • Remember First to possess his books; for without them He’s but a sot, as I am, nor hath not One spirit to command: they all do hate him 90 As rootedly as I. Burn but his books. —  The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]
  • The only difference between him and a sot was drinking his liquors genteelly from his own cellar, and lying in bed when a sot lies in the gutter. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, fool, from Old English sott, from Old French sot.

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  1. from Middle English sot, sotte = Middle Dutch sot, later zot, from Old French (and F.) sot (feminine sotte), foolish, as noun a fool, sot, = Walloon so, soft (Middle Latin sottus), foolish, sottish; cf. Spanish Portuguese zote, foolish, sottish, German zote, obscenity, Italian zotico, coarse; perhaps of Celtic origin: cf. Breton sod, sot, stupid, Irish suthaire, a dunce, suthan, booby. Hence sot, v., besot, sottish, sottise.
  2. from sot, n.
 

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