Noun: sot
Sample Sentences
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Remember
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First to possess his books; for without them
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He's but a sot, as I am […] [1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:]
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c. 1670-1680, John Oldham, The Eighth Satire of Monsieur Boileau, imitated
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In Egypt oft has seen the Sot bow down,
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And reverence some deified Baboon.
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Every sign
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That calls the staring sots to nasty wine. [1684, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, Essay on Translated Verse:]
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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. [April 21, 1864, John Ruskin, "Traffic", Unto This Last and Other Writings, New York: Penguin (1997), p. 235]
Nouns inflected like sot
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. 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!”).
2. Compare Middle Low German sot (“insane, foolish, stupid”), Middle Dutch sot ("foolish, absurd, stupid"; > modern Dutch zot), French sot (“stupid, foolish, goofy”). See: Middle English Nouns '
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Verbs referencing "sot"
French Nouns
sot, Dutch Nouns
zot.