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Sot   /sɔt/   Listen
noun
Sot  n.  
1.
A stupid person; a blockhead; a dull fellow; a dolt. (Obs.)
2.
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."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sot" Quotes from Famous Books



... cried the poor man, in an agony of intense feeling, "it's little ye thought your Jo would come to such an end as this when ye last sot eyes on him—an' sweet blue ...
— Gascoyne, The Sandal Wood Trader - A Tale of the Pacific • R. M. Ballantyne

... become of them? who will bring them up? Nowadays nobody cares about marrying. Trade brings in less and less, the expenses of housekeeping increase every day, and if a girl here and there does marry after all, what does she gain by it? Why, a worthless sot of a husband, and a life of misery, care, and anxiety. She'll go from bad to worse, have to slave like a maid-of-all-work, be saddled with a lot of wicked children, and when she gets old they'll pitch her into the street. Ay, ...
— A Hungarian Nabob • Maurus Jokai

... faith in that toppet. Where you are a fool is to have believed that Privy Seal, who is a wise man, or Viridus, who is a philosopher after my heart, would have sent such a sot and babbler on such a ...
— The Fifth Queen • Ford Madox Ford

... accounting for the habit he has 'de balbutier promptement des paroles sans idees,' continues, 'je crois que voila de quoi faire assez comprendre comment n'etant pas un sot, j'ai cependant souvent passe pour l'etre, meme chez des gens en etat de bien juger.... Le parti que j'ai pris d'ecrire et de me cacher est precisement celui qui me convenait. Moi present on n'aurait jamais su ce que je valois, on ne l'aurait pas soupconne meme.' Les Confessions, ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill

... sot, and shook my head first a one side and then the other, and then turned it on its hinges as far as it would go, till it felt about right, and then I lights another, and puts my head in ...
— The Attache - or, Sam Slick in England, Complete • Thomas Chandler Haliburton


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