Sot vs Mot - What's the difference?

sot | mot |

As nouns the difference between sot and mot

is that sot is stupid person; fool while mot is a witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot.

As a verb sot

is to drink until one becomes drunk.

As a proper noun Mot is

canaanite god of death and the underworld.

sot

English

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic) stupid person; fool

* 1610 , , act 3 scene 2

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

* Oldham

In Egypt oft has seen the Sot bow down, / And reverence some deified Baboon.

drunkard

* Roscommon

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

Derived terms

* sottish

Verb

To drink until one becomes drunk

To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot.

* Dryden

I hate to see a brave, bold fellow sotted .

Derived terms

* sotted

Anagrams

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mot
English

Etymology 1
From (etyl) mot. Compare motto.
Noun
(en noun)
A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot.

* N. Brit. Rev.

Here and there turns up a savage mot .

* 1970 , John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse , New York 2007, p. 32:

‘He comes from Montreal, in Canada.’ ‘Why?’ she said, repeating Dr Johnson's mot with a forced sneer.

(obsolete) A word or a motto; a device.

(Bishop Hall)

* Shakespeare

Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar.

(obsolete) A note or brief strain on a bugle.

(Sir Walter Scott)

Etymology 2

Noun
(head)
(slang, Irish English) A girl, woman or girlfriend, particularly in the Dublin area.
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