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sotting

sotting is the present participle and gerund of sot.

Meaning of sot

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)

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

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Questions about sotting

What is sotting the present participle and gerund of?
Sotting is the present participle and gerund of sot.

Words near sotting in the dictionary

  1. sotteries
  2. sottery
  3. Sotteville-lès-Rouen
  4. Sottile
  5. Sottiles
  6. sotting
  7. sottish
  8. sottishly
  9. sottishness
  10. sottishnesses
  11. sottisier

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