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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."





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"Sot" Quotes from Famous Books



... do-little, much-hindering, prateapace sot! here's the lady taken alarmingly ill. The physician has been sent for, and his carriage will be at the door before you blow that ill-looking nose of yours, that my blessed ten commandments are itching to score down—you ...
— Rattlin the Reefer • Edward Howard
... now about a mile from shore, and midway between two of the islands, but we were slowly drifting out, to sea to the westward, and our only chance of yet saving the men was to reach the opposite shore. We therefore sot our jib and rowed hard; but the wind failed, and we drifted out so rapidly that we had some difficulty in reaching the extreme westerly point of the island. Our only sailor left, then swam ashore with a rope, and helped to tow us round the point into a tolerably safe and secure anchorage, ...
— The Malay Archipelago - Volume II. (of II.) • Alfred Russel Wallace
... entrusted with a mission, were you not? And how have you fulfilled it? You have got drunk, you old wretch, so drunk as to have lost your wits. Ah, you shan't escape punishment this time, for even if M. Lecoq is indulgent, you shan't taste another drop for a week. Yes, you old sot, you shall suffer ...
— Monsieur Lecoq • Emile Gaboriau
... jes' de big trees whut de owls an' de rain-doves sot in an' mourn an' sob, an' whut de wind sigh an' cry frough. An byme-by somefin' jes' brush' li'l' Mose on de arm, which mek' him run jes a bit more faster. An' byme-by somefin' jes brush' li'l' Mose on de cheek, which mek' him run erbout ...
— Humorous Ghost Stories • Dorothy Scarborough
... three months to the tread-mill," observed a woman, sitting opposite (the only one in the room, and a happy compound between the slut and the sot). ...
— Sinks of London Laid Open • Unknown


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