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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[From

Like a sot; doltish; very foolish; drunken.

How ignorant are

sottish

pretenders to astrology!

Swift.

Syn. – Dull; stupid; senseless; doltish; infatuate.

–

Sot′tish-ly

adv.

–

Sot′tish-ness

Noun.

, a.

Dull; stupid; senseless; doltish; very foolish. How ignorant are sottish pretenders to astrology!

Dull with intemperance.

sottish ‎(comparative more sottish, superlative most sottish)

alcoholic, drinking heavily
drunk
foolish, stupid, senseless

1611, Bible (KJV), Jeremiah 4:22:

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.

Gabriel strove to restrain himself from breaking out into brutal language about the sottish Malins and his pound. - "The Dead", from "Dubliners" by James Joyce (1914)