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noun

Sot n.

A stupid person; a blockhead; a dull fellow; a dolt. (Obs.)

A person stupefied by excessive drinking; an habitual drunkard. "A brutal sot." "Every sign That calls the staring sots to nasty wine."

verb

Sot v. t. To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot. (R.) "I hate to see a brave, bold fellow sotted."

Sot v. i. To tipple to stupidity. (R.)

adjective

Sot adj. Sottish; foolish; stupid; dull. (Obs.) "Rich, but sot."

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Etymology of 'Sot'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sot" Quotes from Famous Books

... comes upon me suddent, and what do you catch me doin'? You catches me,"—here his voice became impressive—"you catches me lookin' up at the sky. And why am I lookin' up at the sky? It is to say to you, 'Nicholas Nanjivell, the wind is sot ...

— Nicky-Nan, Reservist • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)

... sot endur'd, Who all his time in taverns spent, While his affairs in ruin went. Once as insensible he lay, She dress'd him in a corpse's array, And with the undertaker's aid, Into a burying vault convey'd. The fumes dispersed, the man awakes; All for reality he takes. When by the glimmering of ...

— Aesop, in Rhyme - Old Friends in a New Dress • Marmaduke Park

... Scholar objected, "I was sent here across the salt water dish to join the College of St. Boniface. They were kind of sot upon that in Thessalonica. I guess they will be disappointed, some, if I ain't made a professing member of ...

— The Casual Ward - academic and other oddments • A. D. Godley

... squaw. Then we discovered someone was listening to the confession and pursued the eavesdropper into the bush. When we came back, Laplante had been carried off. I found one of my canoemen had your lost fowling-piece, and it was he who had listened and carried off the drunk sot and tried to send that spear-head into me at the Sault. 'Twas Diable, Eric! Father Holland, a priest in our company, told me of the white woman on Lake Winnipeg. Did you find this—" indicating the ...

— Lords of the North • A. C. Laut

... "Drunken sot!" cried she. "Begone lest I send ye aloft to join yon carrion!" And she pointed where Job's stiff body plunged and swung and twisted at ...

— Martin Conisby's Vengeance • Jeffery Farnol

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