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stot¹

  • /stɒt/ UK
  • /stɔt/ British, Southern, Standard
  • /stɑt/ US

Sounds like haught (in accents with the cot-caught merger) · Rhymes with -ɒt

Where it comes from

From Middle English stot, from Old English stott (“a hack, jade, or worthless horse”), from Proto-West Germanic *stott, *stutt, of uncertain origin; yet, probably related to Old Norse stútr (“young bull, steer”) (whence Danish stud (“a castrated bull, steer”), Swedish stut (“a steer”)). Compare also English stoat.

noun stots

  1. obsolete An inferior horse.
  2. An ox or bull.
  3. regional A heifer. Rory would never have believed that his half-hour had been a twelvemonth, "did not the calves grown now into stots, and the new-born babes now toddling about the house, at length convince him that in his single reel he had danced for a twelvemonth and a day."

stot²

  • /stɒt/ UK
  • /stɔt/ British, Southern, Standard
  • /stɑt/ US

Sounds like haught (in accents with the cot-caught merger) · Rhymes with -ɒt

Where it comes from

Likely derived from Middle Dutch stoten (“to push”) or Middle Low German stôten, from Old Saxon stōtan, from Proto-West Germanic *stautan, from Proto-Germanic *stautaną (“to push, jolt, bump”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewd-, from *(s)tew- (“to push, hit”).

Also compare Middle English steten (“to thrust, strike, push, knock down”), Old Norse stauta and steyta (whence Danish støde), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌿𐍄𐌰𐌽 (stautan), Old Saxon stotan; as well, modern English stutter.

noun stots · stott

  1. Northern England, Scotland A bounce or rebound. Instead of dropping the golden cones safely into his bag he let them dribble out of his hands so that, in the expectancy before the violence of the storm, the tiny stots from one transfigured branch to another could be clearly heard.
  2. of quadrupeds A leap using all four legs at once.

verb stots · stotting · stottin · stotted · stott

  1. Northern England, Scotland, intransitive To bounce, rebound or ricochet. ‘I've plenty of money in my bank – and I have my cheque book here – could one of you cash a cheque for five pounds? – I promise it won't stot.’
  2. Northern England, Scotland, transitive To make bounce, rebound or ricochet.
  3. Northern England, Scotland, transitive To stumble.
  4. intransitive, of quadrupeds To leap using all four legs at once. This vigorous and conspicuous leaping in front of a predator is analogous to bird alarm calls, in that it seems to warn companions of danger while apparently calling the predator’s attention to the stotter himself. We have a responsibility to explain stotting Tommies and all similar phenomena, and t

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  5. obsolete To strike, push, shove.

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@misc{stot_2026,
  title = {stot},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/stot},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}