sot

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   dated and disapproving: a habitual drunkard

   The pamphlet portrays him as an idle sot who spends every evening drinking.

2. 2
   noun

   archaic: a foolish or stupid person

   Only a sot would ignore such an obvious warning.

3. 3
   verb

   a dialect past-tense or past-participial form of sit

   In the speaker’s dialect, he sot beside the fire all night.

From Middle English sot, from Old English sott ("foolish person"), reinforced by Medieval Latin sottus and related continental forms. The dialect past form of sit is a separate development.

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