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sot¹

  • /sɒt/

Sounds like sought (cot–caught merger) · Rhymes with -ɒt

Where it comes from

From Middle English sot, from Old English sot, sott (“foolish, stupid”), from Medieval Latin sottus (“foolish”), of obscure origin and relation. Possibly an expressive interjection, similar to French zut! (“damn it!”).

Compare Middle Low German sot (“insane, foolish, stupid”), Middle Dutch sot ("foolish, absurd, stupid"; > modern Dutch zot), French sot (“stupid, foolish, goofy”).

noun sots

  1. archaic Stupid person; fool. Remember First to possess his books; for without them He's but a sot, as I am […]
  2. Drunkard. Every sign That calls the staring sots to nasty wine.

Similar: fool, souse, suck-pint

sot²

  • /sɒt/

Sounds like sought (cot–caught merger) · Rhymes with -ɒt

Where it comes from

From Middle English sotten, from the adjective (see above).

verb sots · sotting · sotted

  1. To drink until one becomes drunk
  2. To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot. I hate to see a brave, bold fellow sotted.

sot³

  • /sɒt/ Singapore
  • /sɒt/

Sounds like sought (cot–caught merger) · Rhymes with -ɒt

Where it comes from

Compare sod (vulgar interjection).

adjective more sot · most sot

  1. Singapore, colloquial, vulgar Upset, unhappy or bitter about something. Ngl still damn sot about PV barging into Pasir Ris-Punggol and forcing a vote-split. The disrespect towards SDA was NOT ACCEPTABLE

sot⁴

  • /sɒt/

Sounds like sought (cot–caught merger) · Rhymes with -ɒt

Where it comes from

From Cantonese short (sot¹, “crazy”), itself a clipping of English short circuit.

adjective more sot · most sot · sot sot

  1. Manglish, Singlish Insane, crazy, screwed up. all swe [software engineers] recently sot sot one. spent the last 3 years chasing too much headline salaries but now tech winter so all scared and frustrated . frustrations boiling over

verb

  1. Manglish, Singlish, intransitive, invariable To short circuit, to go haywire or malfunction. my stock horn sot sot liao
  2. Manglish, Singlish, intransitive, invariable To go crazy. All these delusional ACN graduates. Must be OT so much until brain sot liao

sot⁵

  • /sɒt/

Sounds like sought (cot–caught merger) · Rhymes with -ɒt

Where it comes from

Analogically formed on the model of get:got by those who use either git (“get”) or set (“sit”).

verb

  1. dialectal, obsolete, participle, past simple past and past participle of sit

SOT⁶

Where it comes from

Acronym of sound on tape.

noun SOTs

  1. countable, uncountable Audio recorded to accompany vision, as opposed to audio recorded later, such as voice-over.
  2. countable, uncountable Audio captured from a person who is on camera, such as an interviewee; a sound bite.

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