Monday Word: Sottish

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

sottish

[sot-ish]

adjective
1. stupefied with or as if with drink; drunken.
2. given to excessive drinking.

examples
1. If you would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend of yours, I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with you. "The Man with the Twisted Lip," Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2. Just as before, he took his "pleasure" coming and going to town, and living the life of sottish ease, as became a man of fashion and a court soldier. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant, A. J. Wilson

origins
Late Old English sott ‘foolish person’, from medieval Latin sottus, reinforced by Old French sot ‘foolish’. The current sense of the noun dates from the late 16th century.

Comments

[med_cat]

Great word!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you!