sotn.1adj.
/sɒt/, U.S. /sɑt/ A. n.1† 1. A foolish or stupid person; a fool, blockhead, dolt. Obsolete.proverbial.a1250 Prov. Alfred 421 Sottes bolt is sone i-scohte.c1300 Prov. Hendyng in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 111 Sottes bolt is sone shote.in combination.1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xx. xxx. 833 Their..apparelling him [i.e. Christ] with sot-like habites, crowning him with thorne, striking him on the head with reedes,..was nothing but a continuate insultation.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > [noun]
asseOE
sotc1000
beastc1225
long-ear?a1300
stock1303
buzzard1377
mis-feelinga1382
dasarta1400
stonea1400
dasiberd14..
dottlec1400
doddypoll1401
dastardc1440
dotterel1440
dullardc1440
wantwit1449
jobardc1475
nollc1475
assheada1500
mulea1500
dull-pate15..
peak1509
dulbert?a1513
doddy-patec1525
noddypolla1529
hammer-head1532
dull-head?1534
capon1542
dolt1543
blockhead1549
cod's head1549
mome1550
grout-head1551
gander1553
skit-brains?1553
blocka1556
calfa1556
tomfool1565
dunce1567
druggard1569
cobble1570
dummel1570
Essex calf1573
jolthead1573
hardhead1576
beetle-head1577
dor-head1577
groutnoll1578
grosshead1580
thickskin1582
noddyship?1589
jobbernowl1592
beetle-brain1593
Dorbel1593
oatmeal-groat1594
loggerhead1595
block-pate1598
cittern-head1598
noddypoop1598
dorbellist1599
numps1599
dor1601
stump1602
ram-head1605
look-like-a-goose1606
ruff1606
clod1607
turf1607
asinego1609
clot-poll1609
doddiea1611
druggle1611
duncecomb1612
ox-head1613
clod-polla1616
dulman1615
jolterhead1620
bullhead1624
dunderwhelpa1625
dunderhead1630
macaroona1631
clod-patea1635
clota1637
dildo1638
clot-pate1640
stupid1640
clod-head1644
stub1644
simpletonian1652
bottle-head1654
Bœotiana1657
vappe1657
lackwit1668
cudden1673
plant-animal1673
dolt-head1679
cabbage head1682
put1688
a piece of wood1691
ouphe1694
dunderpate1697
numbskull1697
leather-head1699
nocky1699
Tom Cony1699
mopus1700
bluff-head1703
clod skull1707
dunny1709
dowf1722
stupe1722
gamphrel1729
gobbin?1746
duncehead1749
half-wit1755
thick-skull1755
jackass1756
woollen-head1756
numbhead1757
beef-head1775
granny1776
stupid-head1792
stunpolla1794
timber-head1794
wether heada1796
dummy1796
noghead1800
staumrel1802
muttonhead1803
num1807
dummkopf1809
tumphya1813
cod's head and shoulders1820
stoopid1823
thick-head1824
gype1825
stob1825
stookiea1828
woodenhead1831
ning-nong1832
log-head1834
fat-head1835
dunderheadism1836
turnip1837
mudhead1838
donkey1840
stupex1843
cabbage1844
morepork1845
lubber-head1847
slowpoke1847
stupiditarian1850
pudding-head1851
cod's head and shoulders1852
putty head1853
moke1855
mullet-head1855
pothead1855
mug1857
thick1857
boodle1862
meathead1863
missing link1863
half-baked1866
lunk1867
turnip-head1869
rummy1872
pumpkin-head1876
tattie1879
chump1883
dully1883
cretin1884
lunkhead1884
mopstick1886
dumbhead1887
peanut head1891
pie-face1891
doughbakea1895
butt-head1896
pinhead1896
cheesehead1900
nyamps1900
box head1902
bonehead1903
chickenhead1903
thickwit1904
cluck1906
boob1907
John1908
mooch1910
nitwit1910
dikkop1913
goop1914
goofus1916
rumdum1916
bone dome1917
moron1917
oik1917
jabroni1919
dumb-bell1920
knob1920
goon1921
dimwit1922
ivory dome1923
stone jug1923
dingleberry1924
gimp1924
bird brain1926
jughead1926
cloth-head1927
dumb1928
gazook1928
mouldwarp1928
ding-dong1929
stupido1929
mook1930
sparrow-brain1930
knobhead1931
dip1932
drip1932
epsilon1932
bohunkus1933
Nimrod1933
dumbass1934
zombie1936
pea-brain1938
knot-head1940
schlump1941
jarhead1942
Joe Soap1943
knuckle-head1944
nong1944
lame-brain1945
gobshite1946
rock-head1947
potato head1948
jerko1949
turkey1951
momo1953
poop-head1955
a right one1958
bam1959
nong-nong1959
dickhead1960
dumbo1960
Herbert1960
lamer1961
bampot1962
dipshit1963
bamstick1965
doofus1965
dick1966
pillock1967
zipperhead1967
dipstick1968
thickie1968
poephol1969
yo-yo1970
doof1971
cockhead1972
nully1973
thicko1976
wazzock1976
motorhead1979
mouth-breather1979
no-brainer1979
jerkwad1980
woodentop1981
dickwad1983
dough ball1983
dickweed1984
bawheid1985
numpty1985
jerkweed1988
dick-sucker1989
knob-end1989
Muppet1989
dingus1997
dicksack1999
eight ball-
c1000 Ælfric Lives Saints xiii. 132 Ne bið se na wita þe unwislice leofað, ac bið open sott [v.r. sot].
c1055 Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia (1885) 8 313 Seðe his agene spræce awyrt he wyrcð barbarismus. Swylce he cweðe þu sot, þær he sceolde cweðan þu sott.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 29 Þa iuguleres and þa oðer sottes..habbeð an þonc.
a1250 Prov. of Alfred 412 Ne gabbe þu,..ne chid þu wyþ none sotte.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 2457 Þan said abram, þat was na sot, formast til his neueu loth.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. x. 8 She..badde hym be stylle, With suche wise wordes to wissen any sottes.
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 157 Who~so nothynge thynkyth of thyngis y-passet, a sote and a fole he shall be callid.
1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. lxxxxii Into the churche than comys another sote.
a1578 J. Heywood Witty & Witless 396 in Two Moral Interludes (1991) 32 No more..dysernythe the sott at yeres thre score Then thynosent borne wt in yeres thre before.
1598 Floure & Leafe in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f. 366/2 So sodainly that as it were a sote I stood astonied.
1602 J. Davies Mirum in Modum sig. I3v Why hath a wise man, to his Sonne a Sotte?
1641 J. Milton Animadversions 55 The one is ever..a sot, an ideot for any use that mankind can make of him.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 492. ⁋1 The Men are such unthinking Sots, that they do not prefer her who restrains all her Passions and Affections [etc.].
1742 H. Fielding Miss Lucy in Town 35 That I should be such a Sot as to suffer you!
2. One who dulls or stupefies himself with drinking; one who commonly or habitually drinks to excess; a soaker.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess > alcoholic or habitual drinker
supper?1529
blow-bowl1530
drunkard1530
drunkera1538
blow-bottle1580
tippler1580
potman1589
red nose1591
sot1592
water rat1593
ply-pot1611
potter1632
pothead1639
pisspot1655
pitcher-man1665
whetter1709
inebriate1794
rummy1843
alcoholic1852
oenomaniac1857
dipsomaniac1858
alcoholizer1880
alcoholist1888
potationist1888
lush1890
rumdum1891
rumhound1895
blacklister1904
dipso1923
rumpot1929
alky1944
juice-head1955
alcohol abuser1965
juicer1967
substance abuser1967
jakey1988
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. D3 v The Danes are bursten-bellied sots, that are to be confuted with nothing but Tankerds or quart pots.
c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) v. 1954 I graunt you then a drunken sot may goe For one that is innocuous.
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 3 He that..drinketh not all his Wine before the Salt is taken away, and only for Digestion: Such a one is a Drunkard, a Sot, &c.
1693 H. Prideaux Lett. (1875) 160 We are here at a miserable passe with this horrid sot we have got for our Dean. He cannot sleep at night till dosed with drink.
1699 Ld. Shaftesbury Inq. conc. Virtue ii. ii. 137 One that uses himself in this way, is often call'd a Sot, but never a Debauchee.
1750 Berkeley Max. conc. Patriotism §10, in Wks. (1871) III. 455 A sot, a beast, benumbed and stupefied by excess.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy I. vi. 119 They form a happy compound of sot, game-keeper, bully, horse-jockey, and fool.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits v. 82 Even the pleasure-hunters and sots of England are of a tougher texture.
1870 W. Thornbury Tour Eng. II. xxii. 112 A poor, clever, worn~out sot.
Foolish, stupid. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective]
sloweOE
stuntc960
dullOE
hardOE
stuntlyc1000
sotc1050
dillc1175
dulta1225
simplea1325
heavy1340
astonedc1374
sheepishc1380
dull-witteda1387
lourd1390
steerishc1411
ass-likea1425
brainless?a1439
deafc1440
sluggishc1450
short-witted1477
obtuse1509
peakish1519
wearish1519
deaf, or dumb as a beetle1520
doileda1522
gross1526
headlessa1530
stulty1532
ass-headed1533
pot-headed1533
stupid?1541
sheep's head1542
doltish1543
dumpish1545
assish1548
blockish1548
slow-witted1548
blockheaded1549
surd1551
dull-headed1552
hammer-headed1552
skit-brained?1553
buzzardly1561
witless1562
log-headeda1566
assy1566
sottish1566
dastardly1567
stupidious1567
beetle-headed1570
calvish1570
bluntish1578
cod's-headed1578
grout-headed1578
bedaft1579
dull-pated1580
blate1581
buzzard-like1581
long-eared1582
dullard1583
woodena1586
duncical1588
leaden-headed1589
buzzard1592
dorbellical1592
dunstical1592
heavy-headeda1593
shallow-brained1592
blunt-witted1594
mossy1597
Bœotian1598
clay-brained1598
fat1598
fat-witted1598
knotty-pated1598
stupidous1598
wit-lost1599
barren1600
duncifiedc1600
lourdish1600
stockish1600
thick1600
booby1603
leaden-pated1603
partless1603
thin-headed1603
leaden-skulledc1604
blockhead1606
frost-brained1606
ram-headed1608
beef-witted1609
insulse1609
leaden-spirited1609
asininec1610
clumse1611
blockheadly1612
wattle-headed1613
flata1616
logger-headeda1616
puppy-headeda1616
shallow-patedc1616
thick-brained1619
half-headed1621
buzzard-blinda1625
beef-brained1628
toom-headed1629
thick-witted1634
woollen-witted1635
squirrel-headed1637
clod-pated1639
lean-souled1639
muddy-headed1642
leaden-witteda1645
as sad as any mallet1645
under-headed1646
fat-headed1647
half-witted1647
insipid1651
insulsate1652
soft-headed1653
thick-skulleda1657
muddish1658
non-intelligent1659
whey-brained1660
sap-headed1665
timber-headed1666
leather-headeda1668
out of (one's) tree1669
boobily1673
thoughtless1673
lourdly1674
logger1675
unintelligenta1676
Bœotic1678
chicken-brained1678
under-witted1683
loggerhead1684
dunderheaded1692
unintelligible1694
buffle-headed1697
crassicc1700
numbskulled1707
crassous1708
doddy-polled1708
haggis-headed1715
niddy-noddy1722
muzzy1723
pudding-headed1726
sumphish1728
pitcher-souleda1739
duncey1743
hebete1743
chuckheaded1756
dumb1756
duncely1757
imbecile1766
mutton-headed1768
chuckle-headed1770
jobbernowl1770
dowfarta1774
boobyish1778
wittol1780
staumrel1787
opaquec1789
stoopid1791
mud-headed1793
borné1795
muzzy-headed1798
nog-headed1800
thick-headed1801
gypit1804
duncish1805
lightweight1809
numbskull1814
tup-headed1816
chuckle-pate1820
unintellectuala1821
dense1822
ninnyish1822
dunch1825
fozy1825
potato-headed1826
beef-headed1828
donkeyish1831
blockheadish1833
pinheaded1837
squirrel-minded1837
pumpkin-headed1838
tomfoolish1838
dundering1840
chicken-headed1842
like a bump on a log1842
ninny-minded1849
numbheadeda1852
nincompoopish1852
suet-brained1852
dolly1853
mullet-headed1853
sodden1853
fiddle-headed1854
numb1854
bovine1855
logy1859
crass1861
unsmart1861
off his chump1864
wooden-headed1865
stupe1866
lean-minded1867
duffing1869
cretinous1871
doddering1871
thick-head1873
doddling1874
stupido1879
boneheaded1883
woolly-headed1883
leaden-natured1889
suet-headed1890
sam-sodden1891
dopey1896
turnip-headed1898
bonehead1903
wool-witted1905
peanut-headed1906
peanut-brained1907
dilly1909
torpid-minded1909
retardate1912
nitwitted1917
meat-headed1918
mug1922
cloth-headed1925
loopy1925
nitwit1928
lame-brained1929
dead from the neck up1930
simpy1932
nail-headed1936
square-headed1936
dingbats1937
pinhead1939
dim-witted1940
pea-brained1942
clueless1943
lobotomized1943
retarded1949
pointy-headed1950
clottish1952
like a stunned mullet1953
silly (or crazy) as a two-bob watch1954
out to lunch1955
pin-brained1958
dozy1959
eejity1964
out of one's tiny mind1965
doofus1967
twitty1967
twittish1969
twatty1975
twattish1976
blur1977
dof1979
goofus1981
dickheaded1991
dickish1991
numpty1992
cockish1996
c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 171/32 Hebes, dwæs, uel sott.
a1100 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 316/7 Stultus, stunt. Sottus, sot.
c1200 Vices & Virtues 67 ‘Ȝif ȝeure ani,’ he seið, ‘is ihealden for wis on ðare woreld, becume sott, and swa he mai bien wis’.
a1225 Leg. Kath. 107 Luuede heo nane lihte plohen ne nane sotte songes.
c1250 Orison our Lady 37 in Old Eng. Misc. And alle mine sot dede Ich bidde hire to me bi-seo.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck De Alder-sotste, the Most foolish, or, The Sottest.
Compounds
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > low drinking-house
sot's-hof1532
bousing ken1567
fuddling-school1680
sot-bay1707
night-cellar1729
sot-hole1755
lush-ken1790
lush-crib1819
Tom and Jerry shop1824
Tom and Jerry1836
deadfall1837
jerry1851
shoful1851
cribc1865
bucket-shop1875
barrel-house1883
lushing-ken1883
shebang1901
barrel shop1904
blood house1913
smoke joint1931
shypoo1936
smoke-shop1937
dive bar1974
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess > place for drunkards
sot's-hof1532
sot-bay1707
sot-hole1755
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 87 His Cruise is over, and he comes to an Anchor in Sot-Bay.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > low drinking-house
sot's-hof1532
bousing ken1567
fuddling-school1680
sot-bay1707
night-cellar1729
sot-hole1755
lush-ken1790
lush-crib1819
Tom and Jerry shop1824
Tom and Jerry1836
deadfall1837
jerry1851
shoful1851
cribc1865
bucket-shop1875
barrel-house1883
lushing-ken1883
shebang1901
barrel shop1904
blood house1913
smoke joint1931
shypoo1936
smoke-shop1937
dive bar1974
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess > place for drunkards
sot's-hof1532
sot-bay1707
sot-hole1755
1755 Gentleman's Mag. May 208/2 It would not have cost me above four-pence half-penny to have spent my evening at Sots Hole.
1826 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 1626 Some ‘good fellow’, who is good no where but in ‘sot's-hole’.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Arcade > member of
Noah's Ark1713
sot's cap1713
ark-shell1854
1713 J. Petiver Aquatilium Animalium Amboinæ Tab. 16/28 Pectunculus rostratus,..Sots-cap.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > low drinking-house
sot's-hof1532
bousing ken1567
fuddling-school1680
sot-bay1707
night-cellar1729
sot-hole1755
lush-ken1790
lush-crib1819
Tom and Jerry shop1824
Tom and Jerry1836
deadfall1837
jerry1851
shoful1851
cribc1865
bucket-shop1875
barrel-house1883
lushing-ken1883
shebang1901
barrel shop1904
blood house1913
smoke joint1931
shypoo1936
smoke-shop1937
dive bar1974
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess > place for drunkards
sot's-hof1532
sot-bay1707
sot-hole1755
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 711/1 A very cold consent of my goffe, that he found and tooke vp at sottes hoffe.
sot-weed n. tobacco (Obsolete exc. Historical).
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun]
petun1568
tobacco1588
Indian herbc1600
weed1600
Indian weed1602
man-bane1614
smokec1616
fogusc1625
Indian drug1630
sot-weed1698
noxious weed1773
baccy1792
backer1823
bacca1824
tobaccy1835
nicotia1868
nicotina1876
snout1885
Magaliesberg1895
tickler1904
burn1964
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding drug or narcotic > [noun] > tobacco-plant
nicotian1577
queen mother herb1577
queen's herb1577
tobacco1577
nicotiana1600
Frenchman1693
sot-weed1698
tobacco-plant1761
1698 E. Ward London Spy I. i. 9 We had each of us Stuck in our Mouths a Lighted Pipe of Sot-weed.
a1704 T. Brown Lett. from Dead (new ed.) in Wks. (1707) II. ii. 81 We had every one ramm'd a full charge of Sot-weed into our infernal Guns.
1708 E. Cook (title) The sot-weed factor; or, a voyage to Maryland.
1747 Scheme Equip. Men of War 35 To add a small Composition of high-flavoured Sot-Weed.
1785 in F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue
1960 J. Barth (title) The sot-weed factor.
1965 E. Tunis Colonial Craftsmen iii. 52 Early Americans not only grew a lot of ‘sot weed’ they also consumed a lot of it.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† sotn.2
Obsolete. rare.
A scourge.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > whip or scourge
swepea700
scourgea1225
whipc1325
swaipa1400
flagellec1430
flail?a1475
foueta1492
scorpion1541
lash1577
sot1588
thong1592
chawbuck1698
knout1716
taw1787
flagellum1807
1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 261 They began to whippe them vpon the calues of their legges with a sot made of canes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
sotv.
/sɒt/, U.S. /sɑt/ 1. transitive.† a. To render foolish or doltish; to stupefy, to besot. Obsolete.† b. To blurt out stupidly. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > render stupid [verb (transitive)]
sota1400
moider1587
duncify1594
effatuate1630
besot1634
incrassatea1660
cretinize1846
a1400–50 Wars Alex. 4364 Ne foloȝe we na ficesyens ne philisophour scolis, As sophistri & slik thing to sott with þe pepill.
a1555 J. Philpot tr. C. S. Curione Def. Authority Christ's Church in R. Eden Exam. & Writings J. Philpot (1842) (modernized text) 322 The cup of the Whore of Babylon, wherewith she hath sotted and made drunk the most part of Christendom.
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (v. 11) He sotteth them with the spirit of drowsynesse and giddynesse.
1600 F. Thynne Emblemes & Epigr. (1876) 53 Crisopeia,..Whoe sotts him soe with her Bewitchinge sight.
1626 N. Breton Fantasticks in Wks. (1879) II. 5/2 Loue..crosseth wisdome, serueth Beautie, and sotteth folly.
a1700 T. Ken Edmund in Wks. (1721) II. 297 Of Wine and Spirits..They..should Cellars drain, Which..should sot the Dane.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > render stupid [verb (transitive)] > blurt out
sot1608
the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)] > without restraint, openly, or recklessly > blurt out
braid1562
blurt1573
bolt1577
plump1579
sot1608
to bounce out (with)c1626
flirt1641
blutter1684
to come right out with1861
to give vent1870
blat1879
whip1889
1608 H. Clapham Errour Right Hand 44 He beginnes to puffe,..and then sotted out this question.
c. With away. To waste or squander by sottish conduct.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (transitive)] > waste
spilla1000
scatter1154
aspilla1250
rospa1325
waste1340
spend1390
consumec1425
waste1474
miswenda1500
forsumea1510
to cast away1530
to throw away1561
embezzle1578
squander1593
palter1595
profuse1611
squander1611
ravel1614
sport1622
to fool away1628
to stream out1628
to fribble away1633
sweal1655
frisk1665
to fiddle away1667
wantonize1673
slattera1681
swattle1681
drivel1686
swatter1690
to muddle away1707
squander1717
sot1746
slattern1747
meisle1808
fritter1820
waster1821
slobber1837
to cut to waste1863
fringe1863
potter1883
putter1911
profligate1938
to piddle away1942
haemorrhage1978
spaff2002
1746 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 4 Oct. (1932) (modernized text) III. 778 I must..have destroyed my health and faculties by sotting away the evenings.
1782 Encycl. Brit. IX. 6908/1 Brandy~shops, in which the inhabitants used to sot away their time in drinking strong liquors and smoking tobacco.
1850 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 510 The elder son of the forementioned squire had muddled and sotted away much of his share in the Leslie property.
2. intransitive. To play the sot; to drink to excess; to soak. Also with it.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (intransitive)]
to drink deepa1300
bousec1300
bibc1400
to drink drunk1474
quaff1520
to set cock on the hoopa1535
boll1535
quass1549
tipple1560
swillc1563
carouse1567
guzzle1579
fuddle1588
overdrink1603
to drink the three outs1622
to bouse it1623
sota1639
drifflec1645
to drink like a fisha1653
tope1668
soak1687
to play at swig1688
to soak one's clay (or face)1704
impote1721
rosin1730
dram1740
booze1768
to suck (also sup) the monkey1785
swattle1785
lush1811
to lift up the little finger1812
to lift one's (or the) elbow1823
to crook one's elbow or little finger1825
jollify1830
to bowse up the jib1836
swizzle1847
peg1874
to hit the booze, bottle, jug, pot1889
to tank up1902
sozzle1937
to belt the bottle1941
indulge1953
a1639 S. Marmion Antiquary ii. i, in Dram. Wks. (1875) 217 You have been sotting on't all night with wine.
1711 E. Ward Vulgus Britannicus (ed. 3) iii. 99 Where day by day they us'd to sot, At All-fours, Cribidge, or at Put.
a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) VI. 399 Those, who should have been watching the Motion of the Enemy, were sotting it at their Cups.
1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 9 Periodical Writers that sot over beer.
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) vi. 56 Beyond the few..reckless vagabonds with whom he..sotted in the alehouse, he had not a single friend.
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