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词汇 sot
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Definition of sot in English:

sot

nounPlural sots sɒtsɑt
  • A habitual drunkard.

    酒鬼,酒徒

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But repeated references to drunkenness in the plays, plus the portraits of two sots, Sir Toby Belch and Falstaff, lead Greenblatt to suspect alcoholism.
    • Verlaine takes it's name from the famous poet and sot!
    • One of the authors, a drunken sot, compliments Deeds, and convinces him, with Bennett's help, to go on a binge with him.
    • This famous game of war is played by parasites, panderers, bandits, assassins, peasants, sots, bankrupts, and such other dregs of mankind.
    • On a terrific set these lost sots enact a comedy-drama whose relevance extends to the soberest souls among us.
    • Way back in the 19th century there was this drunken sot of an Irish kid named Liam.
    • They were characterized as sots, bon vivants, and losers.
    • Now we knew him, or at least a thin slice of his bio, the short, sad saga of a sot preserved among the births, graduations, weddings, and deaths.
    • You could almost feel the disapproval and loathing radiating from Mother at the sight of the man she called ‘that old sot.’
    • In my day the congregation tolerated a drunken sot of an Irishman in the rectory so anything is possible.
    • He can be the world's laziest sot when he decides he wants to.
    • This dress cost me $1200 - my drunken sot of an ex-father-in-law swore up and down he would pay for it but didn't so I got stuck with the bill.
    • ‘Like as not the sot who wrote it all down was drunk as a lord,’ he added.
    • He couldn't believe it, that a woman of her caliber should be drinking with us sots.
    • How painful to behold in a family once happy, the father become a sot; the mother in tears, and the children lamenting or imitating the vices of the parent.
    • Still, a few great individuals emerge in his work, notably a wonderful old sot.
    • Maudling was clever, lazy, a sot and deeply corrupt.
    • He slurred the words, and to all intents and purposes appeared the drunken sot.
    • A few nifty lighting tricks later, and we're riding the rails with a host of yin-yang character pairs: the suited businessman and his wayward brother, the heartbroken sot and her vivacious new friend, and so on.
    • I heard a discussion about Georgian wine glasses that morphed into the disclosure that Georgians, both rich and poor, were drunken sots.
    Synonyms
    drinker, heavy drinker, problem drinker, drunk, drunkard, alcoholic, dipsomaniac, alcohol-abuser, alcohol addict, person with a drink problem
verbsotted, sots, sotting sɒtsɑt
[no object]archaic
  • Drink alcohol habitually.

    the few reckless vagabonds with whom he sotted in the alehouse
    Synonyms
    intoxicated, inebriated, drunken, befuddled, incapable, tipsy, the worse for drink, under the influence, maudlin

Derivatives

  • sottish

  • adjective ˈsɒtɪʃˈsɑdɪʃ
    • In Fields's 1940 masterpiece The Bank Dick, the comedian is Egbert Sousé - a sottish curmudgeon who, through no effort of his own, becomes a hero for thwarting a bank robbery.’
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Clearly contrived on the cheap and in haste, this production, since closed, turned ‘the Scottish play’ into a skittish play, and, worse yet, a sottish play.

Origin

Late Old English sott 'foolish person', from medieval Latin sottus, reinforced by Old French sot 'foolish'. The current sense of the noun dates from the late 16th century.

Rhymes

allot, begot, Bernadotte, blot, bot, capot, clot, cocotte, cot, culotte, dot, forgot, garrotte (US garrote), gavotte, got, grot, hot, jot, knot, lot, Mayotte, motte, not, Ott, outshot, plot, pot, rot, sans-culotte, Scot, Scott, shallot, shot, slot, snot, spot, squat, stot, swat, swot, tot, trot, undershot, Wat, Watt, what, wot, yacht

Definition of sot in US English:

sot

nounsɑtsät
  • A habitual drunkard.

    酒鬼,酒徒

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They were characterized as sots, bon vivants, and losers.
    • A few nifty lighting tricks later, and we're riding the rails with a host of yin-yang character pairs: the suited businessman and his wayward brother, the heartbroken sot and her vivacious new friend, and so on.
    • On a terrific set these lost sots enact a comedy-drama whose relevance extends to the soberest souls among us.
    • In my day the congregation tolerated a drunken sot of an Irishman in the rectory so anything is possible.
    • ‘Like as not the sot who wrote it all down was drunk as a lord,’ he added.
    • Way back in the 19th century there was this drunken sot of an Irish kid named Liam.
    • Still, a few great individuals emerge in his work, notably a wonderful old sot.
    • But repeated references to drunkenness in the plays, plus the portraits of two sots, Sir Toby Belch and Falstaff, lead Greenblatt to suspect alcoholism.
    • This famous game of war is played by parasites, panderers, bandits, assassins, peasants, sots, bankrupts, and such other dregs of mankind.
    • How painful to behold in a family once happy, the father become a sot; the mother in tears, and the children lamenting or imitating the vices of the parent.
    • Now we knew him, or at least a thin slice of his bio, the short, sad saga of a sot preserved among the births, graduations, weddings, and deaths.
    • He couldn't believe it, that a woman of her caliber should be drinking with us sots.
    • I heard a discussion about Georgian wine glasses that morphed into the disclosure that Georgians, both rich and poor, were drunken sots.
    • He can be the world's laziest sot when he decides he wants to.
    • This dress cost me $1200 - my drunken sot of an ex-father-in-law swore up and down he would pay for it but didn't so I got stuck with the bill.
    • You could almost feel the disapproval and loathing radiating from Mother at the sight of the man she called ‘that old sot.’
    • Verlaine takes it's name from the famous poet and sot!
    • He slurred the words, and to all intents and purposes appeared the drunken sot.
    • Maudling was clever, lazy, a sot and deeply corrupt.
    • One of the authors, a drunken sot, compliments Deeds, and convinces him, with Bennett's help, to go on a binge with him.
    Synonyms
    drinker, heavy drinker, problem drinker, drunk, drunkard, alcoholic, dipsomaniac, alcohol-abuser, alcohol addict, person with a drink problem
verbsɑtsät
[no object]archaic
  • Drink habitually.

    the few reckless vagabonds with whom he sotted in the alehouse
    Synonyms
    intoxicated, inebriated, drunken, befuddled, incapable, tipsy, the worse for drink, under the influence, maudlin

Origin

Late Old English sott ‘foolish person’, from medieval Latin sottus, reinforced by Old French sot ‘foolish’. The current sense of the noun dates from the late 16th century.

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