Sot

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SOT, sb. and v. Sc. Yks. Suf. [sot.] 1. sb. A stupid person; an idiot; a fool. Sc. (Jam.) Abd. ‘What's that sad sot saying?’ a teacher's reproof of a boy who was making mistakes in reading. ‘He's a big sot o' a loon’ (G.W.). Ayr. If ony Whiggish whingin sot, To blame poor Matthew dare, Burns Elegy on Capt. Henderson (1790) Epit. st. 8. Hence Sotty, sb. a fool; a mountebank. n.Yks.2 An aud sotty. 2. v. To play the sot; to drink heavily. Gall. Drover blades, wha drink and sot, Nicholson Poet. Wks. (1814) 93, ed. 1897. Suf. And leave Sy at the public house, though he have sometimes staid there sotting by the two hours together, Strickland Old Friends (1864) 325. [1. We sall sette hym full sore, þat sotte, in youre sight, York Plays (c. 1400) 124. OFr. sot, foolish; a fool.]

SOT, adv. Sc. Also in form sut Abd. Per. [sot.] Used as an assertion, gen. after a negative sentence, to contradict the previous negation; see below. Sc. Common, mainly in juvenile speech (A.W.). Bnff. (W.A.C.), Abd. (J.M.), (G.W.), Kcd. (J.M.) Per. ‘I left at two o'clock.’ ‘Na, you did not.’ ‘I did sot, for I heard the clock chappin' at the time.’ ‘He gave me a shilling; he did sot’ (where a negative might be expected) (G.W.). Gall. Not commonly used. An influx of Aberdeen workmen brought the term to Dalbeattie about 35 years ago (J.M.).

SOT, SÖT, see Set, v., Sit, Soot, sb.1