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Sot

//sɒt// adj, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Upset, unhappy or bitter about something. Singapore, colloquial, vulgar

    "Ngl still damn sot about PV barging into Pasir Ris-Punggol and forcing a vote-split. The disrespect towards SDA was NOT ACCEPTABLE"

  2. 2
    Insane, crazy, screwed up. Manglish, Singlish

    "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
  1. 1
    Stupid person; fool. archaic

    "Remember First to possess his books; for without them He's but a sot, as I am […]"

  2. 2
    Audio recorded to accompany vision, as opposed to audio recorded later, such as voice-over. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    a chronic drinker wordnet
  4. 4
    Drunkard.

    "Every sign That calls the staring sots to nasty wine."

  5. 5
    Audio captured from a person who is on camera, such as an interviewee; a sound bite. countable, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To drink until one becomes drunk
  2. 2
    To short circuit, to go haywire or malfunction. Manglish, Singlish, intransitive, invariable

    "my stock horn sot sot liao"

  3. 3
    simple past and past participle of sit dialectal, form-of, obsolete, participle, past
  4. 4
    To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot.

    "I hate to see a brave, bold fellow sotted."

  5. 5
    To go crazy. Manglish, Singlish, intransitive, invariable

    "All these delusional ACN graduates. Must be OT so much until brain sot liao"

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English sotten, from the adjective (see above).

Etymology 3

Compare sod (vulgar interjection).

Etymology 4

From Cantonese short (sot¹, “crazy”), itself a clipping of English short circuit.

Etymology 5

From Cantonese short (sot¹, “crazy”), itself a clipping of English short circuit.

Etymology 6

Analogically formed on the model of get:got by those who use either git (“get”) or set (“sit”).

Etymology 7

Acronym of sound on tape.

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