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sot

sot

2 9.9
A person who often drinks too much alcohol
  • noun
  • /sɑt/
  • Offensive
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  • Because my mother and father were a couple of drunken sots.
  • a drunken sot
  • an old sot

Examples

  • Let's ditch these two sots.

  • I've played second fiddle to that drunken sot for the last time.

  • Lucky for them that poor old sot took the fall that he did when he did.

  • Absolutely destroyed the poor sot.

  • She's given me two children and deserves much better than this old sot.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • And as for your drunken sot witness, her brother won't be able to take the stand in her place.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • You're a drunk, a sot, a pale and pickled wreck of a man.

  • He was known around town as a sot who could never hold his liquor.

  • After years of drinking, he had become a sot, often seen stumbling down the street.

  • Despite his talents, he was viewed as a sot because of his chronic drunkenness.

Synonyms

drunk
vssot
  • Informal
137 3.5

A person who has too much alcohol in their body, either now or often

is a long-term habitual heavy drinker rather than occasional intoxication
alcoholic
vssot
41 4.7

Addicted to drinking alcohol

is a long-term habitual drinker without implying medical diagnosis
wino
vssot
  • Offensive
20 8.9

A person who drinks a lot of cheap alcohol and often lives on the street

is the general chronic heavy drinking term without drink type detail
drunkard
vssot
17 5.5

A person who often drinks too much alcohol

is used similarly but may sound less formal or clinical
lush
vssot
  • Offensive
6 7.9

A person who often drinks too much alcohol

is the neutral descriptive term for the same long-term drinking
boozer
vssot
  • Offensive
3 9.4

A person who often drinks too much alcohol

is a slightly more formal descriptor for long-term heavy drinking
souse
vssot
  • Offensive
1 9.9

A person who drinks too much alcohol most of the time

is the everyday term for the same chronic excessive drinking
rummy
vssot
  • Offensive
1 9.9

A person who drinks alcohol too much

is the broader label for long-term excessive alcohol use
alky
vssot
  • Offensive
1 9.9

A rude word for a person who often drinks too much alcohol

is the general term for chronic heavy drinking without derogatory tone
dipsomaniac
vssot
  • Archaic
1 9.9

A person who cannot stop drinking alcohol

is habitual heavy drinking described without craving emphasis
inebriate
vssot
  • Offensive
1 9.8

A person who often drinks too much alcohol

is the common, informal label for the same chronic behaviour
soaker
vssot
  • Offensive
1 9.2

A person who often drinks too much alcohol

is the general term for chronic excessive alcohol consumption
imbiber
vssot
1 8.4

A person who drinks alcohol a lot

focuses specifically on habitual excessive drinking rather than general use
dipso
vssot
  • Offensive
1 9.9

A person who often drinks too much alcohol

is the standard descriptor for the same long-term excessive drinking
alco
vssot
  • Offensive
1 9.9

A slang word for alcohol or a person who drinks too much

is the straightforward descriptive label for repeated heavy drinking
two-fisted drinker
vssot
  • Slang
9.3

A person who drinks a lot of alcohol quickly

refers to habitual excess without the speed or quantity emphasis
town drunkard
vssot
  • Offensive
8.1

A person in a town who often drinks too much and people know it

is the same chronic drinking but without the local notoriety focus
likker
vssot
  • Offensive
9.9

A person who drinks alcohol too often and gets drunk

is a neutral description for chronic heavy drinking without slang tone
shikker
vssot
  • NSFW
9.9

A person who often drinks too much alcohol

emphasizes chronic habitual excess rather than occasional intoxication
expensive drunk
vssot
  • Offensive
9.9

A person who drinks too much and always buys expensive alcohol

is the chronic heavy drinking label without the spending behaviour

Antonyms

5 7.5

A person who never drinks alcohol

How Drunk

sot
  • Offensive
2 9.9
drinker
83 1.8
teetotaler
  • US
5 7.5

Surface Forms

sot singular
sots plural

Etymology

Sot comes from an old English word sott meaning 'fool'. Over time this word came to mean someone made foolish by drink, so a sot is a person who regularly drinks too much.