Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sottish"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Sottish \Sot"tish\, a. [From {Sot}.]
Like a sot; doltish; very foolish; drunken.

How ignorant are sottish pretenders to astrology!
--Swift.

Syn: Dull; stupid; senseless; doltish; infatuate. --
{Sot"tish*ly}, adv. -- {Sot"tish*ness}, n.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

sottish
adj : given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol; "a
bibulous fellow"; "a bibulous evening"; "his boozy
drinking companions"; "thick boozy singing"; "a drunken
binge"; "two drunken gentleman holding each other up";
"sottish behavior" [syn: {bibulous}, {boozy}, {drunken}]


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