sot

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Scrabble points
3
Words With Friends
3
Letters
3
Pronunciation
/sɒt/

Definition of sot

11 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (archaic)Stupid person; fool.
    “Remember First to possess his books; for without them He's but a sot, as I am […]”
    “c. 1670-1680, John Oldham, The Eighth Satire of Monsieur Boileau, imitated In Egypt oft has seen the Sot bow down, And reverence some deified Baboon.”
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noun

  1. (archaic)Stupid person; fool.
    “Remember First to possess his books; for without them He's but a sot, as I am […]”
    “c. 1670-1680, John Oldham, The Eighth Satire of Monsieur Boileau, imitated In Egypt oft has seen the Sot bow down, And reverence some deified Baboon.”
  2. Drunkard.
    “Every sign That calls the staring sots to nasty wine.”
    “Take a picture by Teniers, of sots quarrelling over their dice; it is an entirely clever picture; so clever that nothing in its kind has ever been done equal to it; but it is also an entirely base and evil picture.”
  3. (countable, uncountable)Audio recorded to accompany vision, as opposed to audio recorded later, such as voice-over.
  4. (countable, uncountable)Audio captured from a person who is on camera, such as an interviewee; a sound bite.

verb

  1. To drink until one becomes drunk
  2. To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot.
    “I hate to see a brave, bold fellow sotted.”
  3. (Manglish, Singlish, intransitive, invariable)To short circuit, to go haywire or malfunction.
    “my stock horn sot sot liao”
  4. (Manglish, Singlish, intransitive, invariable)To go crazy.
    “All these delusional ACN graduates. Must be OT so much until brain sot liao”
  5. (dialectal, form-of, obsolete, participle, past)simple past and past participle of sit

adj

  1. (Singapore, colloquial, vulgar)Upset, unhappy or bitter about something.
    “Ngl still damn sot about PV barging into Pasir Ris-Punggol and forcing a vote-split. The disrespect towards SDA was NOT ACCEPTABLE”
  2. (Manglish, Singlish)Insane, crazy, screwed up.
    “all swe [software engineers] recently sot sot one. spent the last 3 years chasing too much headline salaries but now tech winter so all scared and frustrated . frustrations boiling over”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English sot, from Old English sot, sott (“foolish, stupid”), from Medieval Latin sottus (“foolish”), of obscure origin and relation. Possibly an expressive interjection, similar to French zut! (“damn it!”). Compare Middle Low German sot (“insane, foolish, stupid”), Middle Dutch sot ("foolish, absurd, stupid"; > modern Dutch zot), French sot (“stupid, foolish, goofy”).

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