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sot

/sɒt/

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Singapore/sɒt/

sot noun: stupid person; fool. Also the simple past and past participle of sit.

Noun (1)

sot (plural sots)

  1. (archaic) Stupid person; fool.
    • 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...
    • In Egypt oft has seen the Sot bow down,
      And reverence some deified Baboon.c. 1670-1680, John Oldham, The Eighth Satire of Monsieur Boileau, imitated
  2. Drunkard.
    • Every sign
      That calls the staring sots to nasty wine.1684, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, Essay on Translated Verse
    • 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

Verb (1)

sot (third-person singular simple present sots, present participle sotting, simple past and past participle 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)

Adjective (1)

sot (comparative more sot, superlative most sot)

  1. (Singapore, colloquial, vulgar) Upset, 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 ACCEPTABLE2020 July 11, @risaannwong, Twitter

Adjective (2)

sot (comparative more sot, superlative most sot, reduplicated sot sot)

  1. (Manglish, Singlish) Insane, 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 over2024 April 3, Unregistered, “Shopee fresh grad pay”, in Salary.sg Forums

Verb (2)

sot (invariable)

  1. (Manglish, Singlish, intransitive, invariable) To short circuit, to go haywire or malfunction.
    • my stock horn sot sot liao2009 May 29, anric79, “[Group] YAMAHA Fazer”, in singaporebikes.com
  2. (Manglish, Singlish, intransitive, invariable) To go crazy.
    • All these delusional ACN graduates. Must be OT so much until brain sot liao2021 July 13, Unregistered, “Roles in accenture singapore”, in Salary.sg Forums

Noun (2) capitalized: SOT

SOT (countable and uncountable, plural SOTs)

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

Also used as

sot is also the simple past and past participle of sit.

Synonyms of sot

Forms of sot

Noun
pluralsots
pluralSOTs
Verb
third-person singular presentsots
present participlesotting
past participlesotted
pastsotted
Adjective
comparativemore sot
superlativemost sot
reduplicationsot sot

Plural of sot: sots

Origin of sot

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”).

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

Compare sod (vulgar interjection).

Words formed from sot

Words that rhyme with sot

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Questions about sot

What does sot mean?
Sot means stupid person; fool.
What part of speech is sot?
Sot can be a noun, a verb or an adjective.
How do you pronounce sot?
Sot is pronounced /sɒt/.
What is the plural of sot?
The plural of sot is sots.

Words near sot in the dictionary

  1. Sostre
  2. Sostres
  3. sostrum
  4. sosumba
  5. sosumi
  6. sot
  7. sot-weed
  8. SOTA
  9. Sotadean
  10. sotadic
  11. Sotadic Zone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sot (page history and authors); SOT (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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