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"word": "飲んべえ"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "durák",
"sense": "stupid person; fool",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "дура́к"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pijanica",
"sense": "drunkard",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пияница"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "drunkard",
"word": "juopporatti"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "drunkard",
"word": "juoppolalli"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "nonbē",
"sense": "drunkard",
"word": "飲んべえ"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "drunkard",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "madulsa"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "drunkard",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kione meshtal"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "alkogólik",
"sense": "drunkard",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "алкого́лик"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "górʹkij pʹjánica",
"sense": "drunkard",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "го́рький пья́ница"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "drunkard",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tomador"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "drunkard",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "borracho"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "drunkard",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bebedor"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "drunkard",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "fylltratt"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Nicoline van der Sijs"
],
"word": "sot"
}
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{
"word": "besot"
},
{
"word": "sotted"
},
{
"word": "sot-weed"
}
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"args": {
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"2": "enm",
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"name": "inh"
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{
"args": {
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"expansion": "Old English sot",
"name": "inh"
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"2": "sott",
"t": "foolish, stupid"
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"expansion": "sott (“foolish, stupid”)",
"name": "m"
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{
"args": {
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"2": "ML.",
"3": "sottus",
"4": "",
"5": "foolish"
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"expansion": "Medieval Latin sottus (“foolish”)",
"name": "der"
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{
"args": {
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"title": "obscure"
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"name": "unk"
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"title": "expressive"
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"name": "onomatopoeic"
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{
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"1": "fr",
"2": "zut",
"3": "zut!",
"t": "damn it!"
},
"expansion": "French zut! (“damn it!”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "sot",
"t": "insane, foolish, stupid"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German sot (“insane, foolish, stupid”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
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"2": "sot"
},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch sot",
"name": "cog"
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{
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"2": "zot",
"t": "silly"
},
"expansion": "Dutch zot (“silly”)",
"name": "cog"
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"args": {
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},
"expansion": "(\"foolish, absurd, stupid\"; > modern Dutch zot (“silly”))",
"name": "gloss"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "sot",
"t": "stupid, foolish, goofy"
},
"expansion": "French sot (“stupid, foolish, goofy”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English sot, from Old English sot, sott (“foolish, stupid”), from Medieval Latin sottus (“foolish”), of obscure origin and relation. Possibly an expressive interjection, similar to French zut! (“damn it!”).\nCompare Middle Low German sot (“insane, foolish, stupid”), Middle Dutch sot (\"foolish, absurd, stupid\"; > modern Dutch zot (“silly”)), French sot (“stupid, foolish, goofy”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "sots",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "sotting",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "sotted",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "sotted",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
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}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"To drink until one becomes drunk"
],
"links": [
[
"drink",
"drink"
],
[
"drunk",
"drunk"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot."
],
"links": [
[
"stupefy",
"stupefy"
],
[
"infatuate",
"infatuate"
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[
"besot",
"besot"
]
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}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/sɒt/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒt"
},
{
"homophone": "sought (in accents with the 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",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "napivam se",
"sense": "to drink until drunk",
"word": "напивам се"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "napivátʹsja",
"sense": "to drink until drunk",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "напива́ться"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Nicoline van der Sijs"
],
"word": "sot"
}
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