See sot in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"3": "-"
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"expansion": "Cantonese",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "short",
"t": "crazy",
"tr": "sot¹"
},
"expansion": "short (sot¹, “crazy”)",
"name": "zh-m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "en",
"3": "short circuit"
},
"expansion": "English short circuit",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Cantonese short (sot¹, “crazy”), itself a clipping of English short circuit.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb",
"3": "invariable"
},
"expansion": "sot (invariable)",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"Manglish",
"Singlish"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2009 May 29, anric79, “[Group] YAMAHA Fazer”, in singaporebikes.com:",
"text": "my stock horn sot sot liao",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To short circuit, to go haywire or malfunction."
],
"links": [
[
"short circuit",
"short circuit"
],
[
"haywire",
"haywire"
],
[
"malfunction",
"malfunction"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Singlish, Manglish, intransitive) To short circuit, to go haywire or malfunction."
],
"tags": [
"Manglish",
"Singlish",
"intransitive",
"invariable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"Manglish",
"Singlish"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2021 July 13, Unregistered, “Roles in accenture singapore”, in Salary.sg Forums:",
"text": "All these delusional ACN graduates. Must be OT so much until brain sot liao",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To go crazy."
],
"links": [
[
"crazy",
"crazy"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Singlish, Manglish, intransitive) To go crazy."
],
"tags": [
"Manglish",
"Singlish",
"intransitive",
"invariable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/sɒt/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒt"
},
{
"homophone": "sought (cot–caught merger)"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sot.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-sot.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-sot.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-sot.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-sot.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "sot"
}
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