Sottish vs Drunken - What's the difference?
sottish | drunken |
alcoholic, drinking heavily
drunk
foolish, stupid, senseless
:1769 -
: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.
Drunk, in the state of intoxication after having drunk an alcoholic beverage
* "What'll we do with the drunken sailor, ..."
As adjectives the difference between sottish and drunken
is that sottish is alcoholic, drinking heavily while drunken is drunk, in the state of intoxication after having drunk an alcoholic beverage.As a verb drunken is
.sottish
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(en adjective)Quotations
*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)drunken
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(en adjective)- drunken''' noodles; '''drunken''' duck; '''drunken fried rice