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 606515406; republished as The Shepheardes Calender […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], 1586, OCLC 837880809:

     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, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book III, canto VIII, 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

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

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Catalan

Etymology

From Arabic السَوْط‎ (as-sawṭ, “the whip”), attested from the 13th century.

Pronunciation

• 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.