noun
- a person who drinks alcohol excessively and habitually; a drunkard
Usage: somewhat archaic or literary
Examples
- The old sot stumbled out of the tavern at closing time.
- He had become a hopeless sot after losing his job.
- The village sot was known to everyone in town.
- She worried her brother would become a sot if he didn’t stop drinking.
- The novel portrayed him as a pathetic sot who had wasted his life.
- Despite his reputation as a sot, he was surprisingly articulate when sober.