sottish
adjEtymology From sot + -ish.
1
alcoholic, drinking heavily
2
drunk
3
foolish, stupid, senseless
- For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 4:22:
- Gabriel strove to restrain himself from breaking out into brutal language about the sottish Malins and his pound.1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “The Dead”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 270:
- Derived terms
- sottishly, sottishness