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sottery en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈsɒtəɹi/

Etymology

From sot + -ery.

Meanings

1. (archaic, countable, uncountable) Drunkenness.
   • A large door will turn on a small hinge, and the experience of one night had done more to disgust Phœbe with her unruly lover than all the sottery she had witnessed under her father's roof for months. In general Matthew's drinking-bouts had followed some wayward and tyrannical caprice of hers, […] 1865, Isabella Banks, God's Providence House, volume 2, page 72:
2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Folly.
   • […] heathenish Sottery 1653, John Gauden, Hieraspistes:

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