assot

English

Etymology

From Middle English asoten, assoten, from Old French asoter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈsɒt/

Adjective

assot (comparative more assot, superlative most assot)

1. (obsolete) dazed; foolish; infatuated
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Marche. Aegloga Tertius.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; republished as The Shepheardes Calender […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], 1586, →OCLC:

     Willy, I ween thou be assot.

Verb

assot (third-person singular simple present assots, present participle assotting, simple past and past participle assotted or assot)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To besot; to befool; to infatuate.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 22:

     Some extasie assotted had his sense, or dazed was his eie.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “assot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Satos, Tsaos, oasts, stoas, tasso, tosas

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic السَّوْط (as-sawṭ, “the whip”). First attested in the 13th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əˈsɔt]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [aˈsɔt]
• Rhymes: -ɔt

Noun

assot m (plural assots)

1. whip, scourge

   Synonyms: fuet, flagell

2. flogging

Derived terms

• assotar

Further reading

• “assot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “assot” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “assot” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.