Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
Upset, unhappy or bitter about something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Singapore, colloquial, vulgar
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adj
Insane, crazy, screwed up.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Manglish, Singlish
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noun
Stupid person; fool.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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noun
Drunkard.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Audio recorded to accompany vision, as opposed to audio recorded later, such as voice-over.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: broadcasting, media
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noun
Audio captured from a person who is on camera, such as an interviewee; a sound bite.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: broadcasting, journalism, media
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verb
To drink until one becomes drunk
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To short circuit, to go haywire or malfunction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Manglish, Singlish, intransitive, invariable
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verb
To go crazy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Manglish, Singlish, intransitive, invariable
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verb
simple past and past participle of sit
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, form-of, obsolete, participle, past
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noun
a chronic drinker
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: drunkard, drunk, rummy, inebriate, wino
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Broader terms: drinker, imbiber, toper, juicer
Narrower terms: alcoholic, alky, dipsomaniac, boozer, lush, soaker, souse
History
Compare sod (vulgar interjection).
From Cantonese short (sot1, “crazy”), itself a clipping of English short circuit.
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”).
Acronym of sound on tape.
From Middle English sotten, from the adjective (see above).
Analogically formed on the model of get:got by those who use either git (“get”) or set (“sit”).
Across languages
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
