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ˈsotter, v. Sc. and north. dial.
[Cf. G. dial. sottern (also suttern) in the same sense.]
a. intr. To boil slowly, or with a dull sound.
1781J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. 96 Sotter, to make a noise in boiling as any thick substance does. 1808in Jamieson. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 39 The broo boils up wi' sotterin' sound.
b. To bubble. Also poet.
1834J. Galt Lit. Life III. 51 The blood was sottering out of his shoe mouth. 1886W. S. McIntosh in D. H. Edwards Mod. Sc. Poets IX. 70 This wee burnie sae sottered an' sang. 1951Auden Nones (1952) 64 The sharp streams and sottering springs of A commuter's wish. |