sot
noun
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Pronunciation: /sɒt/
adj
Etymology: From Cantonese short (sot¹, “crazy”), itself a clipping of English short circuit.
- 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”
noun
Etymology: 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”).
- Stupid person; fool.
“Remember First to possess his books; for without them He's but a sot, as I am […]”
“c. 1670-1680, John Oldham, The Eighth Satire of Monsieur Boileau, imitated In Egypt oft has seen the Sot bow down, And reverence some deified Baboon.”
- Drunkard.
“Every sign That calls the staring sots to nasty wine.”
“Take a picture by Teniers, of sots quarrelling over their dice; it is an entirely clever picture; so clever that nothing in its kind has ever been done equal to it; but it is also an entirely base and evil picture.”
verb
Etymology: Analogically formed on the model of get:got by those who use either git (“get”) or set (“sit”).
- simple past and past participle of sit