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sot.

Stupid person; fool.

3 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/sɒt/
  1. Stupid person; fool.

    archaic
  2. Drunkard.

Where this word comes from

From Middle English sot, from Old English sot, sott (“foolish, stupid”), from Medieval Latin sottus (“foolish”), of obscure origin and relation. Possibly an expressive interjection, similar to French zut! (“damn it!”). Compare Middle Low German sot (“insane, foolish, stupid”), Middle Dutch sot ("foolish, absurd, stupid"; > modern Dutch zot), French sot (“stupid, foolish, goofy”).

verb/sɒt/
  1. To drink until one becomes drunk

  2. To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot.

Where this word comes from

From Middle English sotten, from the adjective (see above).

adj/sɒt/Singapore/sɒt/
  1. Upset, unhappy or bitter about something.

    Singapore · colloquial · vulgar
Where this word comes from

Compare sod (vulgar interjection).

adj/sɒt/
  1. Insane, crazy, screwed up.

    Manglish · Singlish
Where this word comes from

From Cantonese short (sot¹, “crazy”), itself a clipping of English short circuit.

verb/sɒt/
  1. To short circuit, to go haywire or malfunction.

    Manglish · Singlish · intransitive · invariable
  2. To go crazy.

    Manglish · Singlish · intransitive · invariable
Where this word comes from

From Cantonese short (sot¹, “crazy”), itself a clipping of English short circuit.

verb/sɒt/
  1. simple past and past participle of sit

    dialectal · form-of · obsolete · participle · past
Where this word comes from

Analogically formed on the model of get:got by those who use either git (“get”) or set (“sit”).

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