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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SOT, n.
1. A stupid person; a blockhead; a dull fellow; a dolt.
2. A person stupefied by excessive drinking; an habitual drunkard. What can ennoble sots?
SOT, v.t. To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot. I hat to see a brave bold bellow sotted. [Not much used.] [See Besot.]
SOT, v.i. To tipple to stupidity. [Little used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a chronic drinker [syn: drunkard, drunk, rummy, sot, inebriate, wino]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, fool, from Old English sott Date: 1592 a habitual drunkard

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. a habitual drunkard. --v.intr. (sotted, sotting) tipple. Derivatives: sottish adj. Etymology: OE sott & OF sot foolish, f. med.L sottus, of unkn. orig.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sot Sot, n. [F., fr. LL. sottus; of unknown origin, cf. Ir. sotal pride, soithir proud, or Chald. & NHeb. shoten foolish.] 1. A stupid person; a blockhead; a dull fellow; a dolt. [Obs.] --outh. In Egypt oft has seen the sot bow down, And reverence some d?ified baboon. --Oldham. 2. A person stupefied by excessive drinking; an habitual drunkard. ``A brutal sot.'' --Granville. Every sign That calls the staring sots to nasty wine. --Roscommon.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sot Sot, a. Sottish; foolish; stupid; dull. [Obs.] ``Rich, but sot.'' --Marston.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sot Sot, v. t. To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot. [R.] I hate to see a brave, bold fellow sotted. --Dryden.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sot Sot, v. i. To tipple to stupidity. [R.] --Goldsmith.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Blockhead, dolt, dullard, dunce, simpleton, fool, snipe, malt-horse. 2. Toper, tippler, drunkard, wine-bibber, dram-drinker.

Moby Thesaurus

alcoholic, alcoholic addict, bacchanal, bacchanalian, bibber, big drunk, boozehound, boozer, bullheaded, carouser, chronic alcoholic, chronic drunk, closed-minded, deaf, devotee of Bacchus, dipsomaniac, drinker, drunk, drunkard, guzzler, hard drinker, hardheaded, headstrong, heavy drinker, imbiber, inebriate, intractable, lovepot, lush, mulish, oenophilist, pathological drinker, pot companion, problem drinker, reveler, serious drinker, shikker, soak, soaker, social drinker, swigger, swiller, thirsty soul, tippler, toper, tosspot, wassailer, winebibber