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sot
1/ sɒt /
noun
- a habitual or chronic drunkard
- a person stupefied by or as if by drink
sot
2/ sɒt /
adverb
- indeed: used to contradict a negative statement
I am not! — You are sot!
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Derived Forms
- ˈsottish, adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sot1
First recorded before 1000; Middle English: “fool,” Old English sott, from Medieval Latin sottus; further origin unknown
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sot1
Old English, from Medieval Latin sottus; compare French sot a fool
Origin of sot2
a variant of so 1, altered to rhyme with not
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Example Sentences
Well, he sot up a bank, en say anybody dat put in a dollar would git fo' dollars mo' at de en' er de year.
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Den he tuck'n sot down, ole Brer Rabbit did, un wash his face un han's des same ez you see de cats doin'.
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Mr. Lion sorter study, un Brer Rabbit sot dar, he did, un wash his face un lick his paws.
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Finally he made each midshipman write in bold characters, "Mais, que je suis sot," and sign this humiliating confession.
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It tuk de doctor an' a powerful lot o' medicine ter sot me up agin, an' I was kin' o' porely fer a long time.
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