sottery

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/ˈsɒtəɹi/

noun

Drunkenness.

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Meanings

nounsottery (countable and uncountable, plural sotteries)

plural sotteries

  1. archaiccountableuncountableDrunkenness.

    A large door will turn on a small hinge, and the experience of one night had done more to disgust Phœbe with her unruly lover than all the sottery she had witnessed under her father's roof for months. In general Matthew's drinking-bouts had followed some wayward and tyrannical caprice of hers, […]

    1865, Isabella Banks, God's Providence House, volume 2, page 72
  2. countableobsoleteuncountableFolly.

    […] heathenish Sottery

    1653, John Gauden, Hieraspistes

Origin

From sot + -ery.

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APA

sottery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sottery

MLA

“sottery.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sottery. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sottery,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sottery.

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