sot
/sɒt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.73 in modern English
3
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
adj
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "I hate to see a brave, bold fellow sotted."
- "Ngl still damn sot about PV barging into Pasir Ris-Punggol and forcing a vote-split. The disrespect towards SDA was NOT ACCEPTABLE"
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: sot, sottus, sotten, -, short circuit
Usage
Inflected Forms
sots (plural)
sots (present, singular)
sotting (participle, present)
sotted (participle, past)
sotted (past)
more sot (comparative)
most sot (superlative)
sot sot (reduplication)