sottery

noun — 2 senses

sottery

noun

/ˈsɒtəɹi/

Etymology From sot + -ery.

1

Archaic Drunkenness.

  • A large door will turn on a small hinge, and the experience of one night had done more to disgust Phœbe with her unruly lover than all the sottery she had witnessed under her father's roof for months. In general Matthew's drinking-bouts had followed some wayward and tyrannical caprice of hers, […]1865, Isabella Banks, God's Providence House, volume 2, page 72:
2

Obsolete Folly.

  • […] heathenish Sottery1653, John Gauden, Hieraspistes:

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