Definition of sot
: a habitual drunkard
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a sot who was arrested after a bar fight
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To this old sot, the gun represents some kind of high hilarity.
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In her telling, the Medici history is populated not by high-minded art patrons but by drunken sots and savage adventurers, essentially a crime syndicate, intent on amassing wealth and power without limit and without scruple.
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There's the company sot, Fielding (Anthony Chisholm, with a voice from the bottom of a bottle), who turns out to have been a coveted tailor for Billy Eckstine and Count Basie.
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This social network will help these poor sots overcome their addiction, working on the same principle as nicotine gum, methadone and arena football.
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Origin and Etymology of sot
Middle English, fool, from Old English sott
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