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sottery

/ˈsɒtəɹi/

sottery noun: drunkenness.

Noun

sottery (countable and uncountable, plural sotteries)

  1. (archaic) Drunkenness.
    • 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. (obsolete) Folly.
    • […] heathenish Sottery1653, John Gauden, Hieraspistes

Forms of sottery

pluralsotteries

Origin of sottery

From sot + -ery.

Questions about sottery

What does sottery mean?
Sottery means drunkenness.
What part of speech is sottery?
Sottery is a noun.
How do you pronounce sottery?
Sottery is pronounced /ˈsɒtəɹi/.
What is the plural of sottery?
The plural of sottery is sotteries.

Words near sottery in the dictionary

  1. sotrastaurin
  2. sotrovimab
  3. sots
  4. sotted
  5. sotteries
  6. sottery
  7. Sotteville-lès-Rouen
  8. Sottile
  9. Sottiles
  10. sotting
  11. sottish

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