sot

plural sots

1. archaicStupid person; fool.

   c. 1670-1680, John Oldham, The Eighth Satire of Monsieur Boileau, imitated In Egypt oft has seen the Sot bow down, And reverence some deified Baboon.

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   Remember First to possess his books; for without them He's but a sot, as I am […]

   1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]

2. Drunkard.

   Every sign That calls the staring sots to nasty wine.

   1684, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, Essay on Translated Verse

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   Take a picture by Teniers, of sots quarrelling over their dice; it is an entirely clever picture; so clever that nothing in its kind has ever been done equal to it; but it is also an entirely base and evil picture.

   April 21, 1864, John Ruskin, "Traffic", Unto This Last and Other Writings, New York: Penguin (1997), p. 235

   Synonyms: alcoholic

present singular third person sots · participle present sotting · participle past sotted · past sotted

1. To drink until one becomes drunk
2. To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot.

   I hate to see a brave, bold fellow sotted.

   1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number)

comparative more sot · superlative most sot

1. SingaporecolloquialvulgarUpset, unhappy or bitter about something.

   Ngl still damn sot about PV barging into Pasir Ris-Punggol and forcing a vote-split. The disrespect towards SDA was NOT ACCEPTABLE

   2020 July 11, @risaannwong, Twitter

comparative more sot · superlative most sot · reduplication sot sot

1. ManglishSinglishInsane, crazy, screwed up.

   all swe [software engineers] recently sot sot one. spent the last 3 years chasing too much headline salaries but now tech winter so all scared and frustrated . frustrations boiling over

   2024 April 3, Unregistered, “Shopee fresh grad pay”, in Salary.sg Forums

1. ManglishSinglishintransitiveinvariableTo short circuit, to go haywire or malfunction.

   my stock horn sot sot liao

   2009 May 29, anric79, “[Group] YAMAHA Fazer”, in singaporebikes.com

2. ManglishSinglishintransitiveinvariableTo go crazy.

   All these delusional ACN graduates. Must be OT so much until brain sot liao

   2021 July 13, Unregistered, “Roles in accenture singapore”, in Salary.sg Forums

1. dialectalobsoleteparticiplepastsimple past and past participle of sit

plural SOTs

1. countableuncountablebroadcastingAudio recorded to accompany vision, as opposed to audio recorded later, such as voice-over.
2. countableuncountablebroadcastingAudio captured from a person who is on camera, such as an interviewee; a sound bite.