sotterv.
Scottish and northern dialect.
a. intransitive. To boil slowly, or with a dull sound.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > boil [verb (intransitive)] > simmer
simpera1500
siver1601
simmera1637
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1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. 96 Sotter, to make a noise in boiling as any thick substance does.
1808 in J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang.
1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 39 The broo boils up wi' sotterin' sound.
b. To bubble. Also poetic.
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the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > effervesce [verb (intransitive)]
burble1303
blubberc1400
bubblea1475
buller1535
seethe1535
bell1598
huff1707
wobble1725
effervesce1784
sotter1834
blob1855
upbubble1865
petillate1942
1834 J. Galt Lit. Life & Misc. III. 51 The blood was sottering out of his shoe mouth.
1886 W. S. M'Intosh in D. H. Edwards Mod. Sc. Poets 9th Ser. 70 This wee burnie sae sottered an' sang.
1951 W. H. Auden Nones (1952) 64 The sharp streams and sottering springs of A commuter's wish.
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